来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第17集 第17集》

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  See, there is that same structural position.
  看吧 这里有一个相似结构的位置
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  The judge occupies the place that
  法官占着这个地方
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  Satan does in Paradise Lost
  在《失乐园》中撒旦也是这样做的
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  and gives a speech: It was like a sermon but it
  而且还说过 也许像些布道
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  was no such sermon as any man of us had ever heard before.
  但是并不像我们中的人听过的那样
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  Beyond the malpais was a volcanic peak and
  熔岩区上面是个火山顶
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  in the sunrise it was many colors and there was dark, little birds crossin down the wind
  在日出中有很多颜色也有黑暗
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  and the wind was flappin the judge's old benjamin about him
  小鸟穿过风 风轻拍着法官的爱子
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  and he pointed to that stark and solitary mountain and delivered himself of an
  他指着那座荒凉的山 发表了演说
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  oration to what end I know not, then or now,
  不论何时我们无从知晓演说的结束语了
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  and he concluded with the tellin us
  他告诉我们 我们的大地之母
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  that our mother earth as he said was round like an egg and
  正如他说的那样是圆的 像个鸡蛋似地