His resentment over his powerlessness within the family seethes in this moment, and he thinks of a way to get back at his father.

他讨厌自己在父亲,暴怒时的无可奈何，因而他设法去报复。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

.. And so it's a kind of--; So, it is indeed a fact of our powerlessness that we're stuck with the necessities.

所以这有点;,所以这确实是我们没有能力,我们才会为必然的事情而苦恼。

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The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This sheer powerlessness about this central fact " about the nature of my existence " is an extra insult added to the injury."

这种纯粹的无能为力,“无力左右我的存在,“就是受伤之后被加上的侮辱“

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Try feeling upset at your powerlessness to change the fact that two plus two equals four.

尝试为你无力,改变二加二等于四的事实而痛苦。

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And whew! She's flying off the roof with anger, chasing him around the house trying to whip him with a wet towel, so on and so forth: a very dramatic scene again of powerlessness within the family, of being the victim of violence within the family.

噢！在房子里，祖母气急败坏地用湿毛巾追着打他，一会窜这儿，一会窜那儿：,这是理查在家里无能为力，再次成为家庭暴力受害者的又一典型案例。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选