牛顿从冥思中回到现实后，看着空空如也的盘碟，就说：“真的，要不是因为证据就在眼前，我肯定敢发誓还没吃过饭呢！”

Newton , after recovering from his meditation, looked at the empty dishes and saying , 'well really, if it weren, t for the proof before my eyes, i could have sworn that i had not yet dined.

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And we know how easy it is to miss part of reality, even they are right in front of our very eyes.

我们知道无视一部分现实是多么容易，就算他们就在我们眼前。

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It's a kind of realism, of course. Nevertheless, there it is in front of us, and again I call you back to that quotation. What are we going to see when we look at the fiction? Do we see what's in front of us?

当然这也是一种现实主义，然而，这些就在我们眼前，我想再次将你们的注意力集中到那句引语上，当我们阅读这,部小说时，什么情景会呈现在你眼前呢，我们能看到什么吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选