Suddenly, we have evidence, thirteen or fourteen hundred years earlier, that people were reading this stuff and, by and large, it's a pretty constant textual tradition.

因为突然间，我们有了证据，证明1200或1400年前就有人，读着这些经文而且总的来说，经文一直延续了其文本传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We've spent a couple of weeks now reading Milton's declarations of the importance of the shepherd's trade.

几周以来我们读到的弥尔顿,一直在高谈牧羊人的营生的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Toni Morrison was speaking for black Southerners in that, I think, fantastic line in her novel Beloved which I know many of you've read because it's taught all the time but there's that marvelous little exchange at one point between Paul D and Sethe.

托尼.莫里森藉由她的小说《宠儿》中,用一句绝妙的句子表达了南方黑人的心声,我知道很多人都已经读过《宠儿》,因为这本书一直被当做教材,不过小说中男女主人公保罗和塞丝,有这么一小段触人心弦的对话

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