Remember, this whole story takes place under the aegis of his alienation from himself. He's thinking about what he'd like to do in the funhouse.

记住，所有的故事发生在他自己疏离的,状况下，他在考虑在开心馆里他,要做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This seems to be a statement of his alienation or disaffection from the concerns of his fellow Athenians. I know nothing about what you do or what you care about.

这似乎是他对雅典同胞,所关心之事务疏离,或不满的表述,我不知道你做啥。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, that self-alienation causes him to lose his love.

正是这种自我疏离使他失去了所爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The two begin what seems a happy relationship, but within thirty pages or so it is all over, and Jed returns to his customary alienation.

NEWYORKER: Off the Map

He wrote few of the group's numbers, but his compositions often set the tone of alienation and frustration for which X Japan was revered.

CNN: ISOLATED IN THEIR GRIEF

Britten's personal sense of alienation was a natural outcome of his life as a homosexual in a society that criminalized this, but it also arose from his views of a world in which all sorts of injustice reigned.

WSJ: The Sounds of Sacrifice | Benjamin Britten | War Requiem | Masterpiece by Stuart Isacoff