He had two brothers and two sisters, and it's amazing, when you read his memoirs, how invisible they are.

他有两个哥哥和两个姐姐，令人惊讶的是当你读他的回忆录时，几乎看不到他们。

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He said, "If you want to understand the South," he said, "Its taproot is back there in the Old South."

如果你想读懂南方",他说,"那你必须追溯到内战前的南方"

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You're probably a little frustrated because maybe you sort of anticipated what he was going to say, and then you read it and you said, "Gee, he really isn't saying that.

如果你差不多猜出了他要说什么的话,你可能会有点沮丧，如果你读这篇文章，就会说：“哎呀，他不是这个意思。

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But you're the man behind the decider who decides what the decider is going to read, to be informed of, to see, who he is to see.

但你是在决定人身后的人,你决定了他,要读什么，知道什么，看些什么，见哪些人。

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He's the charlatan preacher. We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him, but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting their thumb smashed in a door.

他是虚伪的传教士，我们当然不打算要支持或,同情他，但是读到这儿你禁不住要去,想，某人的大拇指被猛然关上的门夹住的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the most famous, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who in his famous fictional letters, Letters from an American Farmer, he invented a character, if you've ever read that great text, called Farmer James.

其中最著名的一位是,J·赫克托·圣约翰·克雷夫科尔,在他的著作,《一个美国农民的信》中,他创造了一个形象,如果你读过这本书,农夫詹姆士

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There is that desire much more explicitly in the writing of Jack Kerouac, the desire to replicate experience as you read, the feeling of having the experience that the writer wants you to have and that the writer himself has had.

这种渴望在杰克凯鲁雅克的写作中表现得更明确，在你读他书的时候，想要重新体验，作者想要你体验的那种感觉,作者自己也有那种感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选