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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  question, "Who am I?"
  "我是谁"
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  This is on 158, and you just get that blank,
  在第158页 你们可以看到这个空白
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  silence, and you can see it enclosed in all those quotation marks.
  代表了沉默 它被包含在这些引号里
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  This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable,
  巴斯试图将沉默融入易懂的语言
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  to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.
  在故事结构中包含这种不可能性
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  So all the quotation marks suggest human voice.
  这些引号体现了人类的声音
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  I want to suggest to you finally that Barth is interested in the oral
  最后我要说的是 巴斯在这本书中
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  tradition above all other traditions in this book.
  对传统口头语的兴趣超出了其他所有传统
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  He's using Greek epic as the source of his literary canon,
  他选用了希腊史诗作为故事的基调
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  here, and his canon of stories, of narratives,
  以及整个关于叙述的基调
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  because it's oral tradition that brings the human voice
  因为传统口头语中包含了人类的语言
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  and the human being, the fact of a person, together most closely.
  和思想 以及人类共同存在的事实