So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So if I post it on Wednesday to cover the material for that week, then you should attempt it as quickly as possible because I'm going to assume you have done the problems when you come for the next few lectures.

如果我周三布置了关于该周课堂内容的作业,你们应该尽快着手去做,因为当你下周来上新课时,我会假设大家都已经把上周题目做完了

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The opening chapters of Leviathan, which I have only assigned a few, but the opening chapters present a kind of political physics where human beings are reduced to body and the body is further reduced to so much matter and motion.

利维坦》的开头几章，我只给你们布置了一些，开头几章呈现出,一种政治性的物理学,人类被缩小到身体,而身体继续被缩小到,大量物质和运动。

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