伊泽贝尔，就是他的兄弟，以前曾经听说过这个笑话。

Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.

《牛津词典》

他感觉这个公寓惟一的缺点就是太小。

He felt the apartment's only drawback was that it was too small.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

这个人就是他。

This man was the man.

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And it's this final movement of the simile, according to this ingenious argument by Geoffrey Hartman, that Hartman calls the counter-plot.

根据哈特曼灵巧的论点看来，这就是这个比喻最后的深意，他称之为反计。

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What Buddy does, in this passage, is set up this opposition between his own reading of his story and Zooey's.

巴蒂所做的，在这个片段里，就是提出,他对自己故事的理解和左伊的之间的矛盾。

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Right? I expect him to tell me the truth about the weather, right, and that's what I'm listening to him for.

对吧？，我希望他告诉我们天气的实况，我听他说话就是这个目的。

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