And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now, think about what it would mean ? to accept a valuable container theory.

现在想想它的意义,接受有价值容器理论的意义为何。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选