Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

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I just need to clean the dishes, before I come over.

在我来之前，我还得把盘子刷了。

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Broom meant to make a clean sweep of things, a clean sweep of what had come before.

扫帚》的寓意是将事情做个彻底的了结，对曾经发生过的事情一扫而空。

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