With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, this is a more complex and, sort of, dense example of how that consumer, that push to consume, that consumer sense drives and motivates the novel and plays out in what they see when they are on the road.

这是个更复杂更难懂的例子，它有关那些消费者，怎样推动消费和消费者的意识怎样驱动小说情节发展,及演变出他们在路上看到的各种事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He feels that the plot hinges on mysticism or religious mystification. In any case, he makes it very clear, a too vividly apparent transcendent element of sorts, which he says he's worried can only expedite, move up, the day and hour of my professional undoing.

他感觉到了情节是靠神秘或宗教的神秘推动的,无论如何，他的感受非常清晰，一个他担心过于生动的明显的非凡的因素，只能加速，上升，我职业毁灭的时刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选