来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第12集 第12集》

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  There are even longer examples in the book, and I'm sure you noticed them.
  这本书里还有更长的例子 我相信你们都注意到了
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  Oedipa needs to actually touch the man, and when she finally,
  奥狄芭事实上需要接触那个男人 当她最终
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  sort of, takes him in her arms, the position she assumes looks like
  把他搂在怀里 她的姿势看起来像
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  that of a mother with her broken son.
  出自一个妈妈抱着她夭折的儿子
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  And the image is much more specifically of Michelangelo'sPieta.
  这一形象特别像米开朗基罗笔下的圣母怜子雕像
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  And remember the Lago di Pieta figures prominently in the novel,
  记得小说里突出的兰格·迪圣母形象吗
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  both as the site of the rout of GIs in Italy,
  她们都位于意大利GIs暴动地点
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  and the lake from which their bones are taken
  他们骨骸被从湖里取出
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  to make charcoal filters for cigarettes.
  来为香烟制作木炭过滤器
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  So, the Pieta, the image of Mary with Jesus' body
  因此 圣母怜子图 玛丽盘腿而坐 耶稣
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  broken from the cross on her lap, is repeated,
  在两腿之间夭折这个形象再现
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  and here Oedipa comes to inhabit that position.
  这里 奥狄芭就扮演着这个角色