So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico, and a land of criminality, the reform school.

他的信从新墨西哥这片西部的土地而来，还是寄宿学校这种犯罪滋生地。

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There is no border in the West. So Sal has to reinvent one, and in some sense it's a border of time.

西部里本身没有什么分界线，所以萨尔必须新发明一个，他所分的界限可以说按照时间来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he modifies them or revises them or introduces new positions to deal with some of the difficulties that he was setting himself to be open to earlier.

他会调整,修改那些观点,或者以引入新观点,来解决先前他遇到的难题

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And he--one day this boy showed up in the class-- this was during Vichy, about 1943, maybe it's '44, and he's new and he's not different, he's just not from there.

他,有一天班里来了个新同学,当时是维西政府时期,1943年,也可能44年,他是新来的也没什么特别之处,只是不是当地人

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