这个哥哥说: 他说的话每个字你都信。
又一次这个哥哥抗绝了他自己并且答应继续等待;但是他说,“下一条小溪,我一定要喝水了,无论你会说什么,我已经太渴了。”
Again the brother denied himself and promised to wait; but he said, "at the next stream I must drink, say what you will, my thirst is so great."
哥哥在发表这个理论的时候显然没有考虑任何惊世骇俗的现实。
The elder brother is issuing this theory without any consideration—obviously, whatsoever of earthly reality and we're shocked by.
So notice first here that the younger brother compares his sister's virginity to a miser's treasure.
所以首先注意这个小哥哥,他将妹妹的贞节与吝啬鬼的财富作比较。
You're stopping him on his track when he says that he's going to marry her, and you say,
当你哥哥说打算跟这个女孩结婚时,你决定要阻止他这样错下去,于是你说,
There is a detail here of course that Zooey, in making a second attempt to converse with Franny about this, impersonates his brother, Buddy, on the phone.
这个细节,左伊当然是在,尝试第二次和弗兰尼谈论这个,在电话里模仿他的哥哥,巴蒂。
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