中英互译

in one's place

基本释义

Having one's own bedroom even as an infant, fixes in a person the notion that she is entitled to a place of her own where she can be by herself, and keep her possessions.
（美国人）甚至在婴儿时期就拥有自己的卧室，这会使人产生这样一种观念：她有权拥有一个属于她自己的地方，在那里她可以独处、可以保存她的物品。
Surely, it takes much more restraint-and far more faith in one's readers-to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去，也的确需要作家的自我克制，和对读者的信任。
People want to protect their view of themselves because it takes a long time to build up a semi-coherent view of oneself and one's place in the world.
人们都会保护自己的观点，因为这是他们花了很长时间来完成的——理清思路，建立自我，找到在这个世界上的位置。