夏达说：“我不想成为人们饭后的谈资，我希望人们能关注我的作品。”

“I don’t want to be an after-dinner conversation piece,” Xia said. “I hope people can really pay attention to my work.”

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And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

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not many really people, like, naturally think like, "I want to be a filmmaker. That's just what I want to do."

没有很多人会说“我想成为电影工作者。这就是我想做的。”

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Right. So when I encountered Dorothy Day, I had no illusion of wanting to be her, I only wanted to be a part of that energy.

对，因此，当我知道Dorothy，Day时，我没有幻想成为她那样的人，我只是想加入到她代表的力量中。

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