She can't get in to heaven anyway. So she says: "Dear Mary: I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know. But I have this personality that makes boys follow me.

反正她是怎样也升不进天堂的，所以，她写道，亲爱的玛丽：,我是一个私生子，我不能进入天堂,众所周知，但我拥有吸引男孩的独特个性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So there is a kind of grammar of race that this boy is learning while he experiences language in all these other more visceral, family-oriented ways.

更直接地谈下去会有危险时,这男孩在学习地区或者种族语言,特有的表达方式，同时他的家庭影响也塑造着他的语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选