Adding firmly: "Are you there?"

又坚定地说道 "你在里面吗"
He's pathetic!

他太可悲了
He runs through all these stories about himself,

他的这些关于他自己的故事
and as each one fails to win him back into Helen's cabin,

每个都无法让他回到海伦的小房中
he comes up with another one.

他就再编一个新的出来
This is a certain kind of exhausted narrative.

这是种典型的叙述的枯竭
It's the failure of any of these stock narratives to have the effect

并且这种叙述永远不能还原
of restoring love and desire, but it's more than that.

爱和欲望的主题但这个故事又不仅仅是这些
It's playful.

它充满乐趣
It's funny.

非常有趣
Barth's effort at showing us the exhaustion of narrative produces a

巴斯竭力向我们展现这种叙述的枯竭
kind of new pleasure in narrative.

其本身就为叙述带去了新的乐趣