He describes for us his own power that somehow manages to survive even a terrifying and humiliating defeat like the one he's just experienced.

他向我们描述了他的力量--在经历了这样一次,可怕的令人羞辱的失败之后,他还是顽强的生存下来了。

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And against that we would then have to subtract the sum total of the negative experiences, all the failures and deceptions or what have you.

与此相对，我们必须,减掉消极经历的总和，所有的失败和受到的欺骗。

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They are what he has to work with, even though they are what defeat him in his effort to make sense of this experience with Magda.

他必须使用它们，尽管就是这些词语使,他失败了，无法传神表达和Magda的经历。

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