The men who stood around and did nothing until they were called to act earned precisely the same amount as those who had been laboring in the vineyard all day. They're not punished for their unprofitable expectation.

那些站在那里什么都没干,直到有人来催的人和那些在葡萄园里,干了一整天的人拿的钱一样多,他们没有因为没有上进心。

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But Oedipa jumps right into these conventional roles, and in that act comes to know more about the world in a way that these men cannot.

而Oedipa则是深入了，这些传统的角色，通过这些，他以一种男人们，无法做到的方式,更多地了解了这个世界。

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