And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

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