来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第10集 第10集》

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  getting a phone where he's teaching in upstate New York;
  在他教书的纽约上州装上电话呢
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  he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in
  他在纽约上州的一所大学里做访问作家
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  upstate New York.
  并教习写作
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  And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you
  他的妈妈贝西经常说
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  get a phone, Buddy?
  巴蒂 你为什么不肯装部电话
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  You're paying to maintain this interior line in our apartment,
  你一直在为公寓里的这部内线电话付费
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  and yet you won't get a phone."
  但是你自己为什么不肯装一部电话
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  For Buddy, the phone that's within the family compound,
  对巴蒂来说 电话是家庭复合物的一种
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  so to speak, family apartment, is the more important line of
  可以说是家庭的一部分 是非常重要的
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  communication.
  交流纽带
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  So, when Zooey goes upstairs to use that phone, it's freighted with all
  所以 当祖伊到楼上去使用那部电话时
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  the significance that Buddy has put upon it.
  充满了巴蒂早已安排好的重要意义