She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Part of what's been bothering Franny is her frustration with acting, and that's one of the things that Lane is so surprised she has given up; it was the only thing she was passionate about.

动作的挫败已经让弗兰尼烦恼了,莱恩也很奇怪她放弃了,这是她唯一有激情的事情呀。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As she goes further and further in to her search for knowledge-- - and finally her abandonment of that search of knowledge-- she sees more and more that this is not just pattern, that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.

在她逐渐深入的求知过程-,和她最后放弃了对知识的寻找-,她越来越明白这不是模式，而是苦难而又需要的风暴系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选