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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  but I don't think we have addressed it as explicitly as we
  但我认为 我们就那两部小说阐述的
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  would with this book.
  不会像这部小说一样明显
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  The book is set in an insane asylum.
  故事发生在精神病院
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  There is no way to avoid insanity.
  精神失常无处不在
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  At first glance that might seem like a very straightforward assertion.
  乍看来 这样说可能太直接了
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  However, the very sense of omnipresent madness in the book is
  然而 正是这种无处不在的精神失常
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  one that, I think, ropes this book very neatly into the
  把这本书完美地串连在
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  argument of Professor Hungerford's syllabus.
  亨格福德教授课程大纲的论点中
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  I think it's an intensification of most of the themes we've studied so far,
  这也是对我们迄今为止研究过的主题
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  for example the Identity Plot.
  的一种强化 如身份认同这一主题
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  I think it's a very unique manifestation of the Identity Plot,
  这部小说是对身份认同的独特阐释
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  because the people in the insane asylum are perhaps one of the most
  因为精神病院里的人们可能是