Middlesex

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy

双生引擎立全书，plot 92。

My name is Calliope Stephanides. I am fourteen years old. Going on fifteen.

诊所自传立人，cast 91。

Sing, Muse, how cunning Calliope wrote on that battered Smith Corona!

戏谑史诗节拍，pace 87。

Her beauty is the kind which seems to be thrown into relief by grief.

少年仿维多利亚句，prose 95。

on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960

底特律开地图，world 91。

I was born twice

一句钩死，hook 97。

its two cartridges, one for typing and one for correcting, that so eloquently represented her predicament, poised between the print of genetics and the Wite-Out of surgery.

打字机隐喻性别手术，innov 96。

telling the truth wasn't nearly as much fun as making things up.

叙述自我意识收束，ending 88。