来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第11集 第11集》

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  every word.
  每一句话"
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  He changes the story from one sentence to the next.
  他运用这些语句不断改变着这个故事
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  Freytag's Triangle won't help him at all.
  弗雷塔克三角全然不起作用
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  So, just knowing the form that the story is supposed to take,
  要明白故事应有的模式
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  and then knowing that language has grabbed you,
  语言会通过这些格式化的句子控制你
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  all these formulaic little phrases, "a figure unusually well developed
  例如"一位身形发育异常良好的姑娘"
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  for her age," these little stock phrases.
  类似的常用语
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  They are what he has to work with, even though they are what defeat him
  这些是他需要利用的素材 虽然它们
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  in his effort to make sense of this experience with Magda.
  妨碍了他交代与玛格达的点点滴滴
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  And it is the experience with Magda that produces the problem
  而恰恰是与玛格达的相处引发了
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  in the first place.
  这一系列问题
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  And so, if we look at page 84,
  请看书上84页