我得承认我喜欢看上去娇柔些。

I must admit I like looking feminine.

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这不是一位真正娇柔的女士吗？

Wasn't this a lady of real delicacy?

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他们以为自己占有了她，以为她是他们的了，因为她在他们的怀抱中，甜美而娇柔。

They thought they possessed her. They thought she was theirs. Because she was in their arms, so delicate and sweet.

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He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this. He gives it to us, but he frames it as an affectation of style.

他说在一个鸡尾酒派对上交谈的调酒师，这是妙语，他给我们了，但是他将其用娇柔做作的风格包装起来。

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So, what Salinger, I think, shows us is that affectation, without something like love, is just affectation, and that's what Lane represents. That's the affectation of literature without any human connection.

所以，Salinger向我们展示的是，这种娇柔做作，不像是喜爱只是娇柔造作，那也是莱恩代表的，那个文学的矫揉造作,并没有任何的与人的联系。

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