On the Road transformed Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady into a youth-culture hero.

《在路上》使克鲁亚克的朋友尼尔·卡萨迪成为青年文化的英雄。

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And that's what Neal Cassady was to them at first, a kind of wanderer who wanted to be in their intellectual, but bohemian, circle.

刚开始时尼尔卡萨迪对他们就是这样，想要进入他们这个既有高才智，又放荡不羁的圈子的流浪汉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, for those of you who don't know, On the Road does document pretty closely the actual road trips that Jack Kerouac took with Neal Cassady and a whole host of others, and I can do a little decoding for you.

现在，如果你们中有人不知道，《在路上》确实近乎于是对真实中,杰克凯鲁雅克带着尼尔卡萨迪和其他一群人上路旅行的记载，我来给你们做些破译。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Neal Cassady Who do you think drove their bus? Neal Cassady drove their bus.

一个被称作“Further“的人？，是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.

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As Dean Moriarty, a character based on Neal Cassady, Garrett Hedlund, a twenty-eight-year-old Minnesotan, is physically alive, and often naked, with a husky bedroom voice.

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