So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

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Beyond this, his youth must be innocent of crime and chaste, his conduct irreproachable and his hands stainless.

通过这些，他的青春,将是贞洁的而不会充满犯罪，他的行为将是无可非难的，他的手将不会有任何污点。

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Instead, he's known for the development of an encompassing theory of mind, one that he developed over the span of many decades.

相反，他却因为提出了极具包容性的,心理理论而闻名天下，这个理论是他通过数十年的研究才提出的。

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Suppose standing on the bridge next to the fat man, I didn't have to push him, suppose he was standing over a trap door that I could open by turning a steering wheel like that.

假设我站在桥上，胖子就在我旁边，我不用去推他，假设他踩在一扇活板门上方,而活板门可以通过转动方向盘来开启。

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But Oedipa jumps right into these conventional roles, and in that act comes to know more about the world in a way that these men cannot.

而Oedipa则是深入了，这些传统的角色，通过这些，他以一种男人们，无法做到的方式,更多地了解了这个世界。

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