You might think, given all this, and given the ultimate plot of On the Road, that being on the road is about pursuing that kind of desire, and that it is necessitated by leaving home: you have to leave home in order to pursue that desire.

你们可能觉得，所有这些，以及《在路上》的最终情节，关于在路上就是追寻这种渴望，这就使离家成为必需：,你必须得离开家才能追求那渴望。

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because it's in LA and I wanted to stay close, near to my family.

因为这是在洛杉矶，我想离家人近一点。

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Why not? These guys that have gone out, let us say to Syracuse, they are your people, they have relatives back home, they have friends back home, it is natural--oh by the way, they're accustomed to worship the gods in the same way that the Corinthians do.

为什么呢,虽然移民已经离家,比如说他们去了锡拉库萨,但他们在家乡有仍有亲朋好友,这很常见,顺道一提,他们敬神的方式,跟科林斯人相同

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Well, I'm from that area so I wanted to stay close to home.

嗯，我就是这里的人，所以想离家近一点。

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