来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第4集 第4集》

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  just dismemberment.
  不只是简单的肢解
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  There's a general ugliness of women that pertains in the novel.
  小说试图阐述某种女性的丑陋
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  And if you look on that page, about in the middle,
  在那一面中间 你会看到
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  this is Enoch describing his foster mother:
  伊诺克这样描述他的养母
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  This woman was hard to get along with. She wasn't old.
  "'这女人不好相处 她不算老
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  I reckon she was 40 year old, but she sho was ugly.
  我觉得她大概四十岁 但她实在太丑了
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  She had these brown glasses and her hair was so thin
  她戴了副棕色眼睛 她的头发很稀疏
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  it looked like ham gravy trickling over her skull."
  像是头颅上流出来的火腿肉汁'"
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  Okay. It's funny a little bit.
  这有点滑稽
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  It's a picturesque comparison, hair and gravy,
  这是一个很生动的比喻 头发和肉汁
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  but it emphasizes that ugliness.
  但却强调了那种丑陋
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  Now, if you look on page 80, 84 in my edition,
  然后请看第80页 在我这版书上是第84页