that day when her corpse was still warm-- [that's Iris' corpse]

是在她[指艾瑞斯]的尸体还温热的时候
and seen what he'd looked like.

我在现场看到了他的神情"
The corpse pops up in the middle of this reflection on why he's dancing.

尸体在他叙述跳舞原因的时候突然出现
So, two times in the space of a page, death accompanies

在一页的空间内他决定跟科尔曼跳舞的事
his decision to dance with Coleman.

两次都与死亡相关
So, why then is homoerotic desire such a threat, a threat in this way?

那么到底为什么同性欲望如此危险
Well, one structural reason could be that homoerotic desire threatens to

一种结构性的解释认为同性欲望
collapse the engine of desire, which is difference.

可能使欲望驱动崩溃也就是消除差异
The novel has set up difference being the engine of desire.

这部小说在欲望驱动上安排了差异
So, if it's desire for the same-- understood as gender, the important

如果是对同种性别的欲望
sameness being gender-- then it looks like a self-canceling desire,

这里的重点是相同性别那么这种欲望
a desire that can't sustain itself, somehow,

就好像会自我取消无法持久