So, this is Chad King talking to Sal Paradise: A quavering twang comes out when he speaks.

以下是乍得王对萨尔·佩拉提斯说的：,他说话时带一阵颤动的鼻音。

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I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.

引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。

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The question would have been what will happen if I go and try to settle a colony at the place which I will call Syracuse that's what I've been describing on the southeastern coast of Sicily.

人们提得问题可能会是,如果我去,锡拉库萨建立殖民地,会发生什么事情,这就是我刚才描述过的,发生在西西里东南岸的事

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