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
both as the site of the rout of GIs in Italy,

她们都位于意大利GIs暴动地点
and the lake from which their bones are taken

他们骨骸被从湖里取出
to make charcoal filters for cigarettes.

来为香烟制作木炭过滤器
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
broken from the cross on her lap, is repeated,

在两腿之间夭折这个形象再现
and here Oedipa comes to inhabit that position.

这里奥狄芭就扮演着这个角色
It's not a social role in the way that she could be granddaughterly or

她扮演孙女或者其他场合里的母亲方式
motherly on those other occasions.

并不表示这是一个社会角色
It's a religious image.

这是个宗教形象
It's also a gendered religious image;

也是个按性别分类的宗教形象
it's also an aesthetic image.

更是一个美学形象