All the women in Dean's life call him to the carpet and tell him of all his sins. That's a sad moment in the novel, a moment of difficulty, a moment of specificity also.

所有在迪安生命里出现的女人都向他,斥责他所有的罪恶，这也是小说中悲伤地部分，是困难的时刻，也是专属于他的时刻。

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But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

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