从穿衣打扮到读书喝茶，都没有一定之规，每个人最好的目标是做他自己，而不是复制别人。

There exist no fixed pattern from the dressing and making ups to study and drinking tea.Everyone's best goal is to be heself rather than copy others.

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尽管他手下有许多官员，但重要的决定还是他自己做。

He had administrators under him but made the crucial decisions himself.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我问过他这都是他自己做的还是有人帮他做的。

I asked him whether he had done it all himself or whether someone had helped him.

《牛津词典》

What Buddy does, in this passage, is set up this opposition between his own reading of his story and Zooey's.

巴蒂所做的，在这个片段里，就是提出,他对自己故事的理解和左伊的之间的矛盾。

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You can tell he does because it gives him this extraordinarily happy opportunity of defending himself and justifying himself, which is what he does with a special vigor this is on page 695 of the Hughes -- in the Apology.

你可以分辨出他喜欢是因为,这给了他格外开心的机会去辩护自己,和证明自己的合法，他充满了精力去做这个,这个在休斯版《致歉》的第695页。

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But the main point here to think about is that feeling of damage.

因他自己也想这样做，但是最重要的我们得想到他的被破坏感。

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