And then you get that sort of lyrical moment of interpretation: "He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him."

然后你就能看到那句抒情的解释：,“他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片，“

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But you can tell that for some reason he is not happy with you.

但你有种感觉，他对你不满。

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Well that's a--so it's sort of tongue in cheek, 'you know this is really good, I love to eat this, but I'm doing it because it's good for me' is the message there.

它有种特别的口感,"你知道这真的非常好,我喜欢吃它,但我吃它更是因为它对我有益",这就是我想要表达的

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So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

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