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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  and I would submit to you that where we see something funny,
  我会为你们指出哪些话是有趣的
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  it's always with a tinge of darkness,
  这些话总是带着一些黑暗色彩
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  as in Claudia and Frieda's mother when she complains.
  比如克劳蒂亚和弗里达的妈妈抱怨的时候
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  I don't know if you remember this scene when she complains about Pecola drinking all the milk.
  不知道你们是否还记得她抱怨佩科拉喝光了所有的牛奶的那一幕
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  She goes on and on and on in this baroque aria of indictment and it's funny,
  她不停地用华丽的咏叹调般的语气控诉着这件事 这很有趣
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  and what we're told about this mother is that on her grumpy days
  并且作者告诉我们这一天这位母亲心情很不好
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  this is what she does.
  她也向我们展示了她的坏脾气
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  She complains about the whole world until she's got everything covered,
  她抱怨了整个社会 直到她把所有能骂的人和物都骂遍了
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  she's covered every complaint she could possibly have,
  她的抱怨范围涵盖了所有她能想到的方面
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  and then she sings.
  之后她开始唱歌
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  And the fact that she turns to singing after having done that suggests a kind of continuity,
  她骂完后开始唱歌的这个过程很连贯
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  that there is an operatic, artistic quality to the complaining.
  因为她的抱怨里包含着歌剧和艺术性的特征