One aspect of their language which maybe you've noticed in On the Road--it's not quite so pronounced in On the Road as it is elsewhere, certainly--in the letters that these figures write to each other.

他们语言的一个方面也许你们已经在《在路上》里注意到了,当然在《在路上》里表现的并不如在其他地方明显,比如在他们这些人相互写的信里,表现得就很明显。

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So I don't know how to draw personalities very well on the board, so I'll draw little stick figures of bodies,but I mean these to be the personalities.

我不知道怎样在黑板上画出人格，我就画几个棍子小人来代替吧。

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We're kind of guessing on these population figures.

而我们对于这样得到的人口数据的准确性,仍表示怀疑

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