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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  to begin to learn that hunger has its pleasures,
  我就会知道饿也有它的乐趣
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  and I was happily at ease in the dark.
  在黑暗中 我也会感到轻松愉快
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  And, in general, I could feel that I was breaking the
  总的来说 我能感觉到
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  tethers of need, one by one.
  我正一个个挣脱需要的束缚
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  I would call this an anorexic aesthetic.
  我把这叫做厌食症的美学观
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  It's an aesthetic of starving the self into invisibility
  让自己挨饿 饿得无形无迹
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  so that the voice can become present.
  叙述视角才能存在
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  So in this scene, when she imagines the girl inside
  在这一幕中 她想象女孩在屋里吃东西
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  the house eating, all that's outside the house is lost.
  屋外的一切都消失了
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  All she can see when she looks out her window is her own reflection.
  她向窗外看到的一切只是她自己的反映
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  But outside the house, she is starved into a kind of
  在房子外面 她因为太饿
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  ethereal, full presence.
  成了一种空气般的 完全的存在