"The Fantasticks" is about young love, children leaving home and what it is like to be a father.

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Because I really want to understand what it is like for a son and a father to relate each other.

因为我很想让知道,一对父子,是如何默契相连的。

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G P Thompson And it turns out that G.P. Thompson, and I'm sure this wasn't the case, but I like to think of it as a little bit of child rebelling against the father.

结果是他的儿子，我确定不是那种情况，但是我们认为他在小时候,对他的父亲可能有一点叛逆。

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You are no longer like a son to me and like your father, my first husband, 'Ere this kindly Greek took pity on me."

你不像我的儿子，而像父亲，我的第一个丈夫，埃瑞是希腊人，这个好人总是可怜我“

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The unnamed friend sounds quite a bit actually like Milton's disapproving father.

这位没有名字的朋友听起来有点像,认为弥尔顿不成器的父亲。

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Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

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