来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第24集 第24集》

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  Life was a small negative space
  生活是一个狭小消极的空间
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  cut out of the eternal solidity,
  从一成不变的固体上被切下
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  and for the first time it felt precious,
  它第一次感到了珍贵
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  not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing but like the
  不像所有那些虚无的言语
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  last breath of a drowning victim."
  而像是溺水者的最后一丝呼吸"
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  So, here we're offered two versions of negativity.
  我们现在给出消极的两种版本
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  One is all of the words that had come to mean nothing,
  一个是所有虚无的言语
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  and the other is this physical emptiness, the hole.
  另一个是这个有形的空虚 即这个洞
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  So, the words that mean nothing are an emptiness that is frustrating,
  毫无意义的言语造成的空虚 令人灰心
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  a blockage, but the emptiness that is the space,
  一个阻碍 但空虚实际上是空间
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  the visual space, comes to be a space of imagination,
  视觉的空间 成为一个想象的空间
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  that gets filled with imagination.
  用想象的世界来填满