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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  you have the Dick and Jane primer at the beginning of each chapter
  每一章都由关于迪克与珍妮的启蒙读本作为开始
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  made into nonsense by being run together.
  用很荒诞的方式穿插在整部小说之中
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  So, remember in the first few pages of the novel
  请注意小说最初的几页
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  you have "Here is a house. It is green and white. It has a red door.
  "这就是那栋房子 它是绿色和白色的 门是红色的
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  It is very pretty" and then mother, father, Dick and Jane.
  房子很漂亮" 之后是关于妈妈 爸爸 迪克和珍妮等等之类的话
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  This is the white aesthetic embodied in the primer.
  在这段启蒙读物中蕴含着白人的美学标准
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  The message is that when you learn to read
  其中的意义在于 如果你是在学习阅读的阶段读到这段文字
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  you are imbuing yourself, imbibing the white aesthetic.
  你是在给自己灌输白人的美学观
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  If you are a young black girl learning to read,
  如果你是一个正在学习阅读的黑人小女孩
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  you are bringing into yourself a deadly kind of poison,
  你是在喂自己一味致命毒药
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  and it's the poison that destroys Pecola's mother
  就是这味毒药毁了佩科拉的妈妈
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  and Pecola herself in her desire for the blue eye.
  也毁了佩科拉自己 因为她产生了想要一双蓝眼睛的愿望