This man always hesitates and evades.

这个人总是犹豫、逃避。

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There's always the sense that Dean evades him, and I think part of that sense of an evading object of desire is, again, the pursuit of sex in this novel; it's part of the pursuit of sex.

总有种感觉好像迪恩在躲着他，而且我想这种回避的部分要求，一样，在这小说里还是对性的追求。

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