There are questions that intersect between the form and the content in every single novel that we read.

在我们要读的每本小说里,形式和内容之间都存在类似的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I started last time, and actually my whole lecture existed under the rubric of, this quotation from Sabbath Lily Hawks, and I'm just going to read it to you again. "I like his eyes.

上堂课我给你们介绍了一下这部小说的基本内容，这次的讲座,将从萨巴斯-莉莉-霍克斯的引语开始，我现在要再将这段话朗读一遍，我喜欢他的眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

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