“I wasn’t writing about anything in the real world,” Ms. Gordon said. “I was just writing about the language that was thronging in my brain.

我并没有写真实世界里发生的事，我只是写那些出现在我脑海里的文字。

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He longed to tell white tourists thronging Washington that the Capitol had been built by slaves, and that Pennsylvania Avenue had held a slave market, "right by where the Smithsonian is".

他渴望告诉那些涌向华盛顿的白人游客，国会大厦乃是无数奴隶一砖一瓦地垒起来的。他还想说，宾夕法尼亚大道昔日的奴隶市场，“正好就坐落在现今的史密森尼博物院旁边”。

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He longed to tell white tourists thronging Washington that the Capitol had been built by slaves, and that Pennsylvania Avenue had held a slave market, "right by where the Smithsonian is".

他渴望告诉那些涌向华盛顿的白人游客，国会大厦乃是无数奴隶一砖一瓦地垒起来的。他还想说，宾夕法尼亚大道昔日的奴隶市场，“正好就坐落在现今的史密森尼博物院旁边”。

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