And the difference between her as a child and her in this moment is that she had not bothered to find out.

在这一刻，就像一个孩子的她,和她自己之间的差异，不难被发现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's that she's rotting; there is mushrooms growing on her, figurative mushrooms growing on her head.

她就像在腐烂;,就像有蘑菇长在她的脸上，她的脸除了些许白斑都是紫色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选