When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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It is essentially a story and can be enjoyed as such.

并不比其他一本伟大的经典小说更难读。

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In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cash's great classic in 1940 called The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although he's focusing only on Southerners here.

在所有由南方人撰写,关于南方的伟大作品中,韦尔伯·卡什1940年的一本堪称经典,在这本叫做《南方的精神》的书中,他如杰斐逊一般对南方人做了描述,尽管这本书中他仅描述了南方人

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So this advertisement tells you that the great classic of modernism is something you stride into like a man, but you don't have to be a particularly extraordinary man to do so.

这广告告诉你们现代主义的伟大经典,在于让你们如男人一样勇敢地投入阅读，但你不一定非得成为特别出众的人来阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选