It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He saw the sad nightingales nodding on the branches and they reminded him of his mother. A gray shroud fell over the city.

他见过悲伤的夜莺在枝头打盹,这些让他想起他的母亲，灰色的寿衣落在这城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.

陌生化所针对的，灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的，称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选