So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the structural elements that lends Areopagitica its curious power is a carefully crafted network of images that Milton has employed to structure the thing.

一个保持着《论出版自由》的奇妙力量的,结构上的重要因素是弥尔顿构架这本著作的,精心制作的网状的人物形象结构。

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And I think the task of the novel is to fill that structure in.

我想这本书的任务,也就是将那种构架给填满。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Plot, yes, we all agree that's the constructed-ness of the story.

情节是故事的构架。

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