And Mars has this sort of human, flabby torso that's not-- it's sympathetic, but it's a different portrayal of war.

马尔斯看起来像一个普通人,略微虚胖,这一点让人同情,但这是对战争的不同描写

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He has this whole group of people out somewhere on the American frontier and they're a kind of a cult.

他描写了来自于美国边界某处的一群人,他们是一群狂热分子

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Most of you have read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and you should recognize that her treatment of in Mrs. Dalloway is a treatment of a traumatized war victim.

多数人应该都读过弗吉尼亚，伍尔夫的《戴洛维夫人》,那么你们应该发现，书中作者描写塞普蒂莫斯，史密斯,的治疗方法就是治疗战后创伤患者的方法。

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How many people can we imagine who might fit that description?

这个描写能够让你脑中想起多少的人？

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And what does it mean to be an American in this novel? So, that's the question I'd like to take up today first. Coming from Lolita, the vision of America in On the Road looks quite different.

这对于小说里你是一个美国人又意味着什么？,这是我今天想让你们思考的第一个问题，《洛丽塔》里，描写的美国景象非常不同于《在路上》之中的景象。

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Now, why the Fat Lady? It's this mythical, incredibly humanly embodied-- whenever you see a fat lady in a novel, one of the first things you want to ask is: why does that person need to be excessively embodied?

现在，为什么是胖太太，这是个神话，人们呈现了，无论你什么时候看到一个胖太太,在小说里，你首先会想问：,为什么那个人需要被这样过多的描写呢？

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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