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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  longer nurses as a result of the bee incident,
  母亲的照顾 才有了自己的名字
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  and he also only gains a male name at that time.
  而当时他只有一个男性的名字
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  And so, I think it's important that the masculinity of language
  我认为最初的那个精子男性化的说话方式
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  asserted with a talking sperm at the very beginning of this collection
  与你是以男性视角驾驭语言
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  is consistent with this sense that you become male when you enter into language.
  有着莫大的关系
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  Somehow when you're unnamed you're not part of language;
  当你没有名字你就不是语言的一部分
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  you're still connected to the mother.
  还是和妈妈紧密相连
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  And he actually had a female name.
  事实上他还有个女性名字
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  Remember he's called Christine for a while.
  他曾一度被称为克里斯汀
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  So he becomes a boy after he's separated from his mother.
  与妈妈分开使他成为一个真正的男孩
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  Menelaus's problem with Helen suggests that incompatibility of
  梅内莱厄斯和海伦的问题反映了与人连接
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  being connected to the other, and here across the line of gender,
  的不兼容性 它跨越了性别