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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  Remember, she says that, as she is growing more and more desperate at the end,
  记得她说 由于最终她越来越绝望
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  that her men were being stripped away from her one by one.
  因为她的男人一个又一个得离开她
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  And so, when she comes to be isolated in this way,
  当她以这种方式被孤立
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  she can finally see and meditate upon, in a new way,
  最终又可以以一种新的方式去看待和思考
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  all those systems of communication.
  所有那些沟通系统
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  And she has that vision of the telephone wires,
  她有电话线式的螺旋思维
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  and she looks up at them as she has just doubted all of the
  她看待它们正如她刚刚怀疑
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  possibilities for making sense of the post horn and the Tristero.
  邮角号和特里斯特罗有用的肯能性
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  She looks up at the telephone wires, and she thinks about
  她看着电话线 她在想
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  all the messages, unintelligible, full of human longing,
  所有的信息莫名其妙的 充满了人类的渴望
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  going back and forth across those wires.
  来回穿梭在电话线之间
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  So, if Pynchon gives us the pattern of meaning,
  如果品钦告诉我们小说含义的框架