And I want to get at that question of embarrassment, because it comes up very explicitly on page 36.

我还想讲一下刚才那个关于难堪的问题，因为在第36页明确提出了这个问题。

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Embarrassment tells us we're in the presence of the excess, and that's why Beat writers court it.

难堪告诉我们自己是处在过度的状态，所以垮掉一代的作者追求难堪。

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And my real answer is, go try it out, because obviously you can tell I frequently do this the wrong way and the TAs give me a hard time every time. John.

你可以，而我真正的答案是去试一试吧,因为很明显你可以发现我老是做错,而我的助教总是给我难堪，约翰。

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That's the blunder. That's the pratfall.

这就是失态环节，让人难堪。

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He says these have been carried out in public, he has gone around in the market and in the open and in the public forum questioning, interrogating and obviously making a variety of people look foolish.

他说这些都是公开进行的，他游走在市集,在公开,及公共的论坛，提问，质问,且明显地让任何人难堪。

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The thing I always liked, Sal, about the Plains Indians, was the way they always got s'danged embarrassed after they boasted the number of scalps they got.

萨尔，我总喜欢大草原印第安人的一点，就是他们在吹嘘自己得了多少头皮之后,总会难堪。

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Embarrassment is thematized in On the Road, and it's assigned what I think is a very interesting provenance.

难堪是《在路上》的主题，它被分配到我认为是一个很有趣的出处。

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I noticed that several of you were smiling, in a way, as I read, that suggested you were embarrassed by the performance. Right?

我注意到在我读的时候你们中有人笑了，那表示你们对我的表演感到难堪，对吗？

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Embarrassment is something that the Beats value.

难堪正是垮掉的一代所重视的东西。

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This is the first full paragraph: I don't know how to cure the sourcitis, except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise Blood, but I am often embarrassed to find that I read the sources after I had written the book.

这是第一段的全文：,“我不知道如何解决资料来源的问题，只能告诉你,我自己发现了很多《慧血》的材料来源，但我经常觉得很难堪,因为我在完成了那本书后才读的资料。

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