And, if you felt you were convinced by my reading of that iconography in these passages, then you want to think about why that's convincing.

如果你觉得我读的,片段中的形象很有说服力，那么你们去想想会什么会信服,作为读者。

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But to get it vivid,you should think of it as though it's being done to you.

但为了更形象，你们应该,把它想成是发生在你身上的。

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And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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One of the most famous, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who in his famous fictional letters, Letters from an American Farmer, he invented a character, if you've ever read that great text, called Farmer James.

其中最著名的一位是,J·赫克托·圣约翰·克雷夫科尔,在他的著作,《一个美国农民的信》中,他创造了一个形象,如果你读过这本书,农夫詹姆士

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But also, there is this sense of imagination, and you get that in the dreaming waters; you get that in the sense of travel or the image of the road that you can see in the green and red vegetables stretching away in their rows to the bright horizon.

但其中也有想象，从“如梦如幻的河水“你可以感受到;,从旅行的感觉或路的形象可以看到,从“一排排红的绿的蔬菜,在阳光下延伸得又直又长直到闪耀的地平线上“,可以看到。

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