The mother has her own way of using words for power, and she does it by making the kitten live again in his imagination.

同样凭借语言，母亲让死猫在理查的心中复活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It has capacities to make things happen in the world that he doesn't know how to control.

在理查还手足无措时,语言有能力改变一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Go ahead and let the Bush tax cuts expire on the theory that the government needs extra revenues to cover the higher spending or should he try to ? make the Bush tax cuts permanent, Ken Judd?

第一种是让布什减税政策自动终结，然后增税,这个倒也在情在理，毕竟政府需要,额外增加财政收入，来承担高额的财政支出,第二种是，采取措施,让该政策继续生效，肯·贾德，你怎么看？

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But there is a second kind of development, and this gets to that second childhood he invokes that happens to him when he goes to Chicago.

但事情有变，在理查的第二个童年,在去芝加哥的路上，他渴望得到童年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, apparently this is not something that happened to Richard Wright.

很显然，这些并没有发生在理查，莱特身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选