There is something else I think we're meant to see that is neither

我觉得我们还应该看到别的东西
theology nor southern context, and I want to show you that now by

除了神学的背景和南方的背景之外
looking at chapter 7; it starts on 115 in your book

看第7章从第115页开始
117 in this edition.

这一版是第117页
I just want to read the opening.

我只想读读开头部分
I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book,

我想把这一章作为整本书的缩影
with respect to its craft.

从行文的角度来说
Let's look at how this opens:

让我们看看这章是怎么开始的
The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out

第二天下午他取回车边在村落里开了起来
into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

想看看在马路上它性能如何
The sky was just a little lighter blue than his suit,

天空的蓝色只比他的制服蓝明亮一点点
clear and even with only one cloud in it,

清澈而平静只有一朵云漂浮着