Something is usually said about Kafka in connection with Wise Blood, but I have never succeeded in making my way through The Castle or The Trial, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Kafka.

经常有人说到卡夫卡,与《慧血》之间的联系，但我从来没有成功地,读懂《城堡》或者《审判》,我不会假装我了解卡夫卡的一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What he wanted to identify was why-- what distinguishes this small group from the rest of the pack: very successful, but not quite as successful as that small group.

他想弄明白其中的原因-,这一小部分人和其他人有何区别：,其他人也非常成功，但没有那一小组人那么成功。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

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