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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the circumstances and situations of the past to other people when they're asking about who you are.

当有人问起你的情况时，你可以用它向其他人描述过去的情况和经历。

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First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

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Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

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