This is still a huge question for us when we think about nation building and building new states, how to create a legitimate authority.

这对我们来说依然是个庞大的问题,当我们思考国家的建设,建设一个新的国家，如何创造合法权力。

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How the human mind works, how we think, what makes us what we are.

人类大脑如何运作,我们如何思考,又是什么让我们变成了现在的样子

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So, with these questions in mind, I want you think about how we can see the novel and how we can think about it in the face of the interpretation that's already layered on to it.

所以，带着这些问题，我想让你们想一下,在已经有解释的情况下,我们应该如何去看,如何去思考这部小说？

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Whatever we may think about this view, whether we like it or don't like it or whatever your view might be, you must also confront another famous, more like infamous, doctrine that is also very much a part of Book I.

无论我们会如何思考这个观点，也无论我们喜欢与否,更不管你的观点为何，你都必需要面对另一项著名，或更像是恶名，同样也是在第，I，册提及的学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I actually want to change that around, if I might, and play with that, because that's a really useful image for us: "takes the mask off literature and reminds us how we come to be sympathetic or Richard Wright how we come to think something." Think back to Richard Wright, who wants words to disappear, to be completely transparent and to leave you just with your response.

实际上，我想要改变一点，可能的话，玩弄一下，因为那对我们是很有用的画面：,把文学的面具卸下,我们是如何同情,或思考事物的，回想一下，他希望文字消失，而变成透明的，只剩下你们的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选