So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Is there any sort of an explanation for why God says you can't eat of this tree when he's given all of the fruit bearing trees... on what's going on and you're going to be reading a wonderful and interesting gnostic interpretation.

有没有一些解释来说明,为什么上帝要说你不能吃这棵树的果实,他给人类所有结果实的树。,对于你现在正在阅读和即将阅读的东西,有许多睿智有趣的解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The claim is, I can write any vector you give me as a real scale i plus a real scale j.

也就是说,我可以把任何你给我的矢量,写成 i 和 j 的实系数线性组合的形式

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选