Like Holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye, Benjamin's goal is to avoid the phonies he sees all around him.

跟《麦田里的守望者》中的霍顿·考尔菲德一样，本杰明的目标是要回避周遭所见的假模假式之人。

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Another thing he's obsessed with: Salinger's novel the Catcher in the Rye, a book he feels compelled to buy every time he sees one - but has never read.

他还痴迷于塞林格的小说《麦田里的守望者》，每次看到这本小说，他都忍不住买上一本，但从来没读过。

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You might think he woulda wanted his own Catcher in the Rye adaptation in the works before he died.

你或许还会认为他会想要把《麦田守望者》改编成电影在他死之前。

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In the first letter, from Jan. 15, 1983, Chapman says his reason for writing, besides wanting to be Spiro's friend, is to ask for help in locating his copy of "The Catcher in The Rye, " which he was reading at the time of his arrest.

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In one letter, Chapman said he'd let Spiro decide whether Lennon was a "phony" or not, a reference to troubled "Catcher in the Rye" narrator Holden Caulfield, who refers to people as "phonies" in the book, written by J.

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