What Buddy does, in this passage, is set up this opposition between his own reading of his story and Zooey's.

巴蒂所做的，在这个片段里，就是提出,他对自己故事的理解和左伊的之间的矛盾。

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The particular dialogue that we're going to reading,the Phaedo, is set at the death scene of Socrates.

我们要学习的这篇对话,斐多篇,就将场景设定在苏格拉底临死前的一幕

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He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.

他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。

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