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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  It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does,
  似乎他的思维不停在跳跃
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  from one version of the story to another.
  就像他不停改变作品那样
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  But the mention of the machines is not incidental.
  但机器的意象却绝非是偶然
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  Narrative becomes a kind of machine.
  叙述文就成为了一种机器
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  You put your penny in the slot and it works to produce the narrative.
  只要投币就会自动开始作文
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  And that's that first part that I read, where he's looking back fondly
  这就是第一部分 在晚年他回首过去
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  with Magda from his eminence, later in life,
  和玛格达度过的时光
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  and it seems safely past and something that can be talked about.
  那时无忧无虑 充满回忆
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  But the problem is that, even if he could produce that kind
  但问题在于 即便他能够创作出
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  of comforting narrative, the problem it produced at the level
  这种治愈人心的叙述文 作品中出现的
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  of identity will never be repaired.
  身份问题永远无法得到弥补
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  Self-alienation, in Barth's work, is the product of desire.
  在巴斯的作品中 自我异化来源于欲望