It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's as if I'm arguing that if I reason this way and reason myself to choosing Beta, somehow I'm going to make the rest of you reason the same way too.

这就好像是在说,要是我这么推理然后选了β,我有办法让你们也都用同样的方式推理

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That's a most ludicrous word, really, in contemporary social science or orthodox Marxist, where you just had to say, "Well, eventually the proletariat will rise up, because the bourgeoisie did this before."

在当代社会学领域或者正统马克思主义里,这是一个非常愚蠢的做法,就好像你只用说,"最终无产阶级会起义,是因为以前资产阶级就这么干过"

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