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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  that is the beginning of
  马上开始讲
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  his insatiable questions.
  他不知足的问题
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  He starts to just torture
  他开始问
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  his mother with a thousand questions
  关于世界的各种各样的问题
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  about everything in the world.
  来折磨她母亲
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  The addiction to alcohol is in a sense
  对于酒精的依赖转变为对于
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  replaced by an addiction to knowledge.
  知识的依赖
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  The experience of having language speak
  他说出的话
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  through him and do things that he doesn't
  起到他意想不到的效果和经历
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  understand makes him want to acquire again that
  让他想要重获那种
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  agency that he experienced
  就是当他以字面意思理解
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  when he took his father's words literally.
  父亲的话的时候