On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

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I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

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