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

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It doesn't reflect the interests of people who have been wandering around nomadically. It has laws that deal with settled agrarian life.

而并没有反映对在旷野流浪的人们的注意,它还记录了管理农民定居生活的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选