This is, remember, when he's hitched a ride in this truck, and it's a truck bed full of men who have hitched rides.

一个简短的例子，这个是他在搭顺风车,车里装满像他一样搭车的人的时候。

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because you're thinking the guy might be trying to steal your car, put you at gunpoint, hijack you,

因为你会想这个人可能是想偷你的车或用枪威胁你，劫持你，

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You see it again on 209, a little later in this scene. His suspicion is aroused when a car pulls up next to them as they're heading out of town.

在209页，这个场景的后半部分，你将再次看见他产生怀疑,当时他们正走在去镇里的路上，一辆车停在他们旁边。

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At any rate, that's what's going on in the car case, same hunk of stuff 1990 to 2006.

无论无核,在车这个例子上，1990到2006年都是同一辆。

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In Houston, as with most other cities in this country, you need a car to get around.

像在这个国家的大多数其他城市一样，在休斯敦，你需要一辆车来帮助你到各处去。

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And this whole like, I mean the whole like traffic completely stopped when this guy got hit.

这个人被车撞了之后交通全都停下了。

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And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

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