so why do you have the second chapter of this book retell the same story that the first chapter of the book told?

为什么一本书的第二章,要重复一遍第一章说过的故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Why do you have four different chapters of this book, all telling the same story?

为什么一本书要有四个不同的章节，来讲述同一个故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And this is actually, in general, why it's sometimes difficult to teach or to tell stories because we constantly overestimate how much other people know.

概而论之，这就是为什么有时候我们很难能讲一个故事,因为我们总是认为别人什么都猜到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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

The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why should we believe Hobbes' story ? and not some other story?

为什么我们要相信霍布斯的故事,而不相信其他的故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Why shouldn't it be shorter? Why shouldn't it be longer?

为什么一个故事的经过不可以短一点或者长一点？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think that's also why Barth chose to write this story in the perfect short story form. And that form is also given to us in Lost in the Funhouse, on page 95, when we get the diagram of Freitag's Triangle.

我认为这也是为什么巴斯选择用完美的短篇小说的,模式写这个故事的原因，这个模式在,《迷失在开心馆》里也有体现，在第95页，就是Freitag三角的图解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Why do we tell stories to each other?"

为什么我们讲故事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选