我有这一理想，由一部小说，这本小说一个真实的故事：一个大学生群山，老师，那么他是稳定的。

I have this ideal, from a novel, this novel Chronicles a true story: a college student to the mountains a teacher, then he is firm.

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And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

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