I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'" So, there is that sense of the West as a source, and what he's going to do is take them back East.

我从未见过像他们一样的人’,’我在西部遇到他们的’“,对新西部的感觉成了一个源点，而他正想要把这群人带回东部。

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It can be understood as a source of new-found authority, of the freedom of one who has been characteristically not free and can be received by a reading community in those terms.

这可以被理解为一种新建立的权威和，一个特性上不自由的人的自由的源头,同时也可以被看做在这些领域里的一个阅读区。

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