So Roth imagines lived life as fictional in the same register as a novel, in the same register as an autobiography.

所以罗斯想像过的生活就像小说中记录的那样，一如自传所述。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选