American literature of the late 19th - and early 20th-century particularly interests me because of its self-consciousness and intensive interaction with its social and historical context.

我对19世纪和20世纪早期的美国文学特别感兴趣，是因为在那样的社会和历史背景下，作品反映了一种自我反思以及强烈的交互感。

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If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now, —a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.

如果她父亲失踪那年她十七岁的话，现在她应当是二十七岁——正是自我意识已褪，经生活磨炼头脑开始变得清醒的青春妙龄。

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The mind is reflected consciousness, reflected from its source, the Self, just like the light from the moon is reflected from the sun.

头脑是反射自(其根源)真我的意识，就像月光是日光的反射一样。

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And there's a self-consciousness about the temporal strangeness of this poem that leads, I think, to its crisis moment. Look at stanza sixteen.

他自己也意识到,诗歌暂时性的古怪会导致，危机的到来，看第六段。

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