Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选