来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第13集 第13集》

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  "The love of a free man is never safe."
  "一个自由人的爱不能给对方带来任何安全感"
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  Safety is not exactly of value in this novel.
  安全感在这部小说中完全没有价值
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  If it were, the safe white household in which Mrs. Breedlove works
  如果它存在的话 布里德洛夫太太所服侍的白人家庭
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  would look a lot more appealing than it does.
  就会比书中实际所写更吸引人
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  There is a certain safety for Frieda and Claudia in their intact household,
  弗里达和克劳蒂亚的完整家庭能提供一定的安全感
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  but there, too, it is fraught with suffering.
  但这个家庭里也充满着痛苦
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  Their mother is cruel to them.
  她们的妈妈对她们很残忍
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  She yells at them.
  她吼她们
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  Safety is not really to be had there,
  任何人都没有得到真正的安全感
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  and the safety that is had comes at great cost.
  那些得到安全感的人都付出了巨大的代价
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  When Cholly is described as having freed himself, earlier in the novel,
  当乔利在小说初期得到自由时
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  part of that story which we don't get explicitly
  我们并不很清楚的那段时期的一件事情是