The commitment is there but at that moment nothing else might be there.

当时，只有单纯的承诺,不再有其他因素。

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That's Dean. In this fantasy about the indigenous girls, what you see is a commitment to language and the activity of selling, buying and selling, entirely entwined with one another.

这就是迪安对那些本地女孩的幻想，你们从这语言中看到的是一个买卖东西，和相互眼神交汇的行为。

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And that's a very long commitment.

而这是长期的投入。

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And we know--from reading Buddy's letter over Zooey's shoulder in the bathtub--we know that Zooey had similar concerns about his own acting career, his own commitment to acting that Buddy tried to persuade him out of.

我们知道，从巴蒂的信中，在浴缸中,我们知道左伊也对他自己的表演事业感到同样的担心,他对表演的付出，巴蒂,曾试图劝说他放弃。

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