来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第2集 第2集》

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  it live again in my mind.
  让那只猫在我脑海中又活了过来
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  What would that kitten do to me
  当我摸这只猫的时候
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  when I touched it?
  会发生什么
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  Would it claw at my eyes?
  它会抓我的眼睛吗
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  As I groped toward the dead kitten,
  正当我摸索着那只死猫时
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  my mother lingered behind me unseen in the dark
  我母亲在我的身后徘徊在黑暗中
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  her disembodied voice egging me on.
  她幽灵般的声音吓了我一跳
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  The mother
  这位母亲
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  has her own way of using words for power,
  有她独特的方式将文字变成力量
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  and she does it by making the kitten
  她以此让那只猫在
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  live again in his imagination.
  他的想象中复活
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  It's as if
  仿佛