And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

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because that's just not a good representation necessarily of what an average woman looks like.

因为那不是代表一般女性很好的例子，

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So this is like your children's book representation of the Christian God, and there it is as a blinding white cloud. You wouldn't even need the curls and the beard if you just had the blinding and the white.

这就像你们儿童书里上帝的代表，它就像一朵亮白的云，你甚至不需要,卷曲状和胡须状的图像，即使你只看的，亮白。

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So, in that relation, I'd like you to think about the representation of America in the novel.

所以，我希望你们思考,这部小说里美国的表征。

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