It is no longer, in other words, that which drives the line in the story.

换句话说，它不再是引领故事发展的主线。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's why she produced story after story after story that can be read in these formal ways with these symbols that accrue meaning and deepen and change over the course of the novel or the story.

这就是为什么她写了一个又一个故事,有着象征意义的形式正式的文章，自然而然地形成某种意义,深刻并改变着小说或故事的发展。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We'll revert especially to the notion of "pushing" in other contexts later in the course, but for the moment you can see the way in which there is a tension between that which pulls and that which pushes which is one of the motive forces of the story.

以后我们会在,其他作品中回归“推“的本意，但是现在我们能看得出来,在推和拉之间有一种张力,这也是整个故事发展的动力之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It takes another development altogether.

故事的另一个发展线索。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选