This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

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So Claire Elise enters and I'm sorry I don't know your name, Jean enters so let's have a look at this array.

克莱尔·伊莉斯参选,对不起我不知道你的名字,吉恩参选,我们来看一下这一行

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In this scene Big Slim Hazard is an American type, just as Mississippi Gene is himself.

这一幕中细杆哈查德是个典型的美国人，就和密西西比的吉恩他自己一样。

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Gene Kimball is in the basement somewhere recording all of this.

吉恩·金博尔正在地下室某个角落,录下这一切

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East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

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If she drops out, Jean wins for sure, So the expected distance away from her of the winning candidate is two away.

如果她退出,吉恩就肯定获胜,预期获胜者与她之间,的距离是两个位置

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So, Sal is convinced--he wants to be convinced; he desperately wants to be convinced--that Mississippi Gene knows Big Slim Hazard. Let's look at another example on page 59.

所以萨尔信服了，他想要被说服;,他极其渴望被说服，很愿意相信吉恩,认识细杆哈查德，让我们来看59页上的例子。

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Good, so by standing not only does she not win the election, but she actually causes the election to be won for sure by Jean who's further away from her.

很好,参选不仅不能让她在选举中获胜,而且会导致,离她更远的吉恩在选举中获胜

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And he's talking with Mississippi Gene. This is at the bottom of 26: There is something so indubitably reminiscent of Big Slim Hazard in Mississippi Gene's demeanor that I said, "Do you happen to have met a fellow called Big Slim Hazard somewhere?"

他在和密西西比的吉恩讲话，在26页下面：,现在，密西西比的吉恩的行为举止有些地方真切地,让我想起关于细杆的哈查德的往事，我问：“你是否在那里碰巧遇到过一个叫细杆哈查德的人“

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The moderate right wing votes she's going to split with Claire Elise, and jean's going to have all the left wing votes, extreme and moderate, and so from Stacy's point of view this is a double bad.

温和的右派选票会被她,和克莱尔·伊莉斯分享,吉恩将会获得所有的左派选票,极端的和温和的,因此从斯泰西的角度看这是加倍的差

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Before you go though, let's just think about it a second, so you can think about it and talk about it at home, so what we just saw was an election in which we saw two candidates, Jean and Claire Elise, who both stood very close to each other.

在你们走之前,再思考一下,这样你们可以在家里思考并讨论,我们刚刚看到的是一个选举,在其中我们看到了两个候选人,吉恩和克莱尔·伊莉斯,她们离得非常近

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