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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  that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.
  这是那些暴风系统的痛楚和需求
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  So, I think this is what Pynchon brings to the string of meditations
  我认为这就是品钦带到那一连串冥想里的东西
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  on what language can do, and what the novel is for,
  关于语言的作用 以及小说为什么存在
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  that I began my lecture today with, just recapping for you.
  我在讲座开始就讲了 这里只是重复一遍
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  He's trying to imagine a novel
  他尝试去想象一部小说
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  that meditates both on these structures of meaning that imbue the real world,
  小说不仅冥想那些充满真实世界的含义结构
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  such that there is no name that isn't already saturated with associations,
  没有什么名字不饱含关联
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  and that within such a world,
  还有这么句话
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  if you enter into it, you can come to encounter the real.
  如果你理解了它 你就可以去闯荡真实世界
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  And the real is that sense of suffering,
  真实世界是受难观念
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  and that the novel can make you feel things,
  小说可以使你感知事物
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  both the pleasure of humor
  比如令人捧腹的幽默