But why is it acting? Why specifically acting and why this weird comment at the end, "What could be prettier?"

为什么是表演，为什么是具体的表演，为什么,会有这么奇怪的评论，还能有更漂亮的事情吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's no other way to interpret these lines which, as you can imagine, critics simply pretend don't exist, ? because who can figure out what to say?

这几句只能这样解释，可以想见，评论家会将这段直接忽略掉，因为他们又能说什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At times, we will play the historian, at times we will be literary critics.

有时，我们会从历史学家的角度来看，有时，会像文学评论家。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now I don't think he really means to be dismissive of Freudian criticism.

当然我也不认为他会完全否定弗洛伊德评论派。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In a moment we will adjoin to the transept where cake awaits and in just a few quotes will you actually see a picture of said cake, but we thought we'd paw off a few quotes who tend to have appeared on campus at some websites familiar to you.

一会儿我们去教堂休息，那儿有免费糕点,看完别人的评论后，你们会看到一幅画，假设画的是糕点,我们跳过几个评论,因为这些评论,在校园网站上都能看到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Somebody could give a talk and we could throw smarties at them the whole time and then you could-- then the other people would say, "The person looked kind of upset during the whole talk.

假设有人在做演讲,我们不停地发表自以为是的评论,然后你会…,然后另一个人会说，”这个人整个演讲中都很烦躁“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选