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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Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.

于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。

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And in this story, he doesn't have my soul.

但在这个故事里，他没有我的灵魂。

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So, these are stories, some of them for voice and tape, and he'd do readings where he'd go and he'd put a tape recorder on the podium and he'd stand next to the tape recorder as his voice read the story from the tape recorder. And it was all to dramatize the problematic relationship between voice, story and person.

所以，这些故事，有些事是声音，他到哪，他会在台上放一部录音机,以便录音，当他读录音机里的故事时,他会站在录音机旁,这戏剧化了声音，故事，和人之间的错综复杂的关系。

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