But intensive detective work shows that Salinger, like a lonely child inventing brothers and sisters, has drawn most of his characters out of his own rare imagination.

但是不间断的侦探工作表明，塞林格，就像一个成天发明自己哥哥姐姐的孤独小孩一样，将他生命中大多数的人都写进了小说中。

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His attitude toward his characters is tender but ruthless, like that of a man who loves his horse but has no choice but to put it down.

他对待书中人物的态度既温和又无情，就好像一个人十分爱他的马却又不得不把杀掉它。

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Lazy like a fox. Or, as Robert Heinlein famously wrote of one of his characters, too lazy to fail.

像狐狸一样懒惰，或许如同罗伯特·海因莱茵[1]笔下那个著名的人物一样——太懒了，才不会失败。

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Like his characters, his Hollywood stars go out of the Bentley and into the streets.

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He presents his characters such as Haji Ali, Rasheed, Sarfaraz, Sadbar, and Parveen like Hollywood movies characters to impress his readers .

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Aubyn to Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde (hard not to, when his characters have neon names like David Windfall), he is a colder, more savage writer than either.

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