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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  or, at least, he recites them in such a cliched way:
  至少他以一种陈词滥调的方式在叙述它们
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  "I gave my mother trouble.
  "我带给我母亲麻烦
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  I was a bad boy.
  我是个坏孩子
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  I took some money to tell where the still was."
  我为了拿到几个子儿告诉了他们蒸馏瓶在哪"
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  These are such, sort of, cliched southernisms
  这些典型的南方式陈腔滥调
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  that you start to see this character as a caricature.
  让这个人像是讽刺画里的人物一样
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  He is very hard to see as a human being.
  很难把他看成一个真实的人
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  And yet, I would contend that the part about
  而且 我认为埃塞克斯
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  the Essex actually running over him is quite compelling.
  从他身上轧过去的那部分给人很强烈的压迫感
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  At least I feel it when I read it.
  至少我读到那部分的时候是那么觉得
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  In a more abstract sense, I feel the violence of it when I
  再抽象点来说 当我读到那些文字时
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  read those passages.
  我感到了那其中的暴力