but if we look on 206, I would argue that we're beginning to see that effort.

在第二百零六页我认为我们可以看到她的努力是有成效的
This is at the very end of the novel, speaking of Pecola:

在小说的最后佩科拉说道:
Oh, some of us "loved" her [and that "love" is in quotations]

我们中间曾有人"爱过"她 ["爱过"在这里是被引用的]
the Maginot Line and Cholly loved her.

玛杰诺·兰和乔利都爱过她
I'm sure he did.

我确定他爱过
He, at any rate, was the one who loved her enough to touch her, envelop her,

至少他爱她爱到会抚摸她拥抱她
give something of himself to her.

把他的一部分给她
But his touch was fatal,

但他的抚摸是毁灭性的
and the something he gave her filled the matrix of her agony with death.

他的给予使她原本痛苦的生活雪上加霜
Love is never any better than the lover.

爱情并不比施爱者更美好
Wicked people love wickedly,

邪恶的人用邪恶的方式去爱
violent people love violently,

残暴的人用残暴的方式去爱