Because when we try to suppress a natural phenomenon such as having a visual of the word when we say it, that thing just intensifies.

因为当我们企图压抑一种自然现象时,比如提起一个词时浮现出相应形象，只会加强它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He's asking us to imagine God, or perhaps this is God's creative spirit, as some sort of feminine being laying the universal egg and brooding over it until it bursts forth with new life. This is a risk.

他想让我们把上帝，或者说上帝的创造精神，想象成一个产下宇宙之卵并孵伏其上,直到新生命破壳而出的女性形象，这很冒险。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's funny a little bit. It's a picturesque comparison, hair and gravy, 0 but it emphasizes that ugliness. Now, if you look on page 80 , this is a woman climbing out of the swimming pool.

这的确挺好玩儿的，这是一个生动的对比，头发和肉汁，小说着重强调了丑陋，现在，如果你把书翻到第80页0,我的书是84页，这是一个刚才游泳池中爬出的女人的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选