It's Laura who cries at Dean's abandonment, while he maintains this composure, this masculine composure: "he'll be all right." But, the sadness here is surely Sal's.

倒是劳拉先为迪安的抛弃哭了，萨尔相反地保持了镇静，这种男人的镇静：,“他会一切顺利的“，但这里最大的悲伤必然是萨尔的。

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And,it used to be that twenty or thirty years ago you'd say nothing in France works, and everything works in the U.S, and now it's just the opposite,totally the opposite.

而在二十或三十年前,你会说法国一片混乱,而美国一切运行顺利,现在则恰恰相反,完全相反

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