This is why he's continually mistaken for a preacher, no matter what he does.

所以他会一直对传教士有误解，无论他做什么事。

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He's the charlatan preacher. We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him, but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting their thumb smashed in a door.

他是虚伪的传教士，我们当然不打算要支持或,同情他，但是读到这儿你禁不住要去,想，某人的大拇指被猛然关上的门夹住的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A half century before that, Ben Franklin helped to build a hall in Philadelphia and said the top of this hall would be open to a Muslim preacher from Constant and Obal This is the early 18th century in America.

再有半个世纪前，本·富兰克林帮助在费城建立了一座会堂,他说会堂的顶层将向,一位来自Constant和Obal的穆斯林布道者开放,这些都发生在18世纪的美国。

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We have the blind preacher.

我们知道了那个盲传教士。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says, "I'm not a preacher," and she says, "That's okay if you're not a preacher."

只好说“我不是传教士“,然后Watts太太说，“如果你不是传教士那就没问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Remember he goes in to the prostitute's house, Mrs. Watts's, and he's got a hat on, and the hat just makes him look like a preacher.

记得有次他去Watts太太的妓院，他戴了顶让他看上去，像传教士的帽子。

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