来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第23集 第23集》

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  He, in his first story collection, has a story called
  在他的第一个作品集中 有篇故事名为
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  (I think it's called) "First Day," where he tells the story
  我想它名为《第一天》
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  of a young girl going off to school for the first time,
  讲述了一个小女孩第一次上学
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  holding the hand of her illiterate mother.
  拉着她的文盲母亲的手
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  Jones reveres his mother.
  琼斯无比崇敬他的母亲
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  When he talks about her, it's with incredible reverence and love.
  每当提起都带着惊人的敬畏和爱戴
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  Jones sees his mother very much as a source of his writing.
  琼斯将他的母亲视为灵感的来源
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  So, here's that first tension in the act of writing,
  那么这就是写作的张力
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  that here is a writer who takes as his source, spiritual source,
  有个作家将他的精神力量
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  an illiterate woman.
  建筑在一位不识字的妇女的身上
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  That's why the mother has to go in his right hand in this scene.
  在这一幕中为何将母亲放在右手
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  Now, of course, not everybody writes with their right hand,
  当然不是所有人都用右手写作