That is to say, plays, in which various characters sit around or stand around and argue about philosophical positions.

即,以戏剧为表现方式,其间各种人物悠闲地或坐或站,集聚一块儿,探讨各种哲学观点

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all sorts of characters that you didn't understand.

各种各样的、令人捉摸不透的人物。

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Because you're going to hear about de Gaulle and you're going to hear about fancy people, but you're also going to hear about very ordinary people who were caught up in kind of the torrent of the twentieth century and the late nineteenth century.

因为你会了解戴高乐,你会了解各种上层人物,不过你也要了解普通人,那些十九世纪末,和二十世纪,大潮中的人们

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