来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第16集》

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  belts and hats--
  相机 腰带和帽子
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  all clearly from the same department store.
  它们明显都来自同一家商场
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  At home I would have had some sense of the individual womanhood
  在家里 我对于眼前每一个女人的个性
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  of the women I faced.
  都能感知得到
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  Here, the most ferociously accomplished seemed to be involved
  而这里最超群女人都似乎融合在
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  in some ice-cold or sun-dried travesty of sex,
  一条冰冷或是干热的女性的挂毯上
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  and even grandmothers seemed to have had no traffic with the flesh.
  甚至祖母辈的人都好像和她们没有交集
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  And what distinguished the men was that they seemed incapable of age.
  男人的特点则是 他们都看不出年龄
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  They smelled of soap, which seemed, indeed, to be their
  他们身上有肥皂味 闻起来的确能够
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  preservative against the dangers and exigencies of any more intimate odor.
  能够抵御任何更直接体味带来的危险
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  The boy he had been shown somehow unsoiled, untouched,unchanged
  他看到过的男孩还未经世事 原原本本
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  through the eyes of the man of sixty,
  变成了六十岁的老人