In other words, Buckle was the avatar of the notion in the late nineteenth century that everything was going to hell in a handbasket.

换言之，十九世纪后期有一种观念认为所有事物都在迅速恶化,而巴尔克则是这种观念的化身。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Reading for him is a way of accessing feeling and that's the kind of reading that he wants from us, from the people who read his book.

对他来说，读书是获得感觉的方式,同时，他也是在向我们，灌输一种他的读书观念。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was a belief in a hierarchical conception of not only society, but of people.

这就是一种不仅对于社会,也关于人类自身的等级观念

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So, this is the other form that the aesthetic can take. And I think that Nabokov is consistently concerned about these two valences of what the aesthetic can look like.

那么这就是那种审美观念的,另一种形式，我认为纳博科夫一直十分关注这两种审美的,可能形式十分关注。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选