这个细节,左伊当然是在,尝试第二次和弗兰尼谈论这个,在电话里模仿他的哥哥,巴蒂。
There is a detail here of course that Zooey, in making a second attempt to converse with Franny about this, impersonates his brother, Buddy, on the phone.
自从巴兹尔·弗尔蒂抱怨“英国利兰协奏曲分为四部分,每部分之间都因四小时的间隔而变慢”(利兰是英国的一个汽车公司,协奏曲为其中的一个汽车品牌),汽车工业就成为英国衰退的一个象征。
Ever since Basil Fawlty moaned about "the British Leyland Concerto in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in between", the car industry has been an emblem of national decline.
他已经说了45分钟,内容才刚刚有点进展,弗兰尼,左伊,巴蒂,贝西:,他们都在试图直接与对方交流。
He's been going on a quarter hour, and he's just hitting his stride. Franny, Zooey, Buddy, Bessie: they all try to speak directly to each other.
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