As you know, in classical literature the dead are referred to as shades, but here in Milton's simile "shades" merely means "shade trees."

在古典文学里，逝者常被用树荫来指代，而在这里弥尔顿的比喻“树荫“仅表示“叶绿成荫的树“

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It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Scholars tend to place great emphasis on the deliverance from Egypt as the high point in the Exodus narrative, rather than the more natural literary climax, which is the conclusion of the covenant at Mount Sinai, and the delivery of the Torah.

学者们想强调，从埃及拯救出来这一段,作为这个故事最精彩的部分，而不是自然的文学高潮,就是随后在西奈的契约，即交付《摩西五经》

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That's very largely visual rather than literary.

这些在更大程度上是视觉的而非文学的。

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Freud lives on both in a clinical setting and in the university but Freud at Yale, for instance, is much more likely to be found in the history department or the literature department than in the psychology department.

虽然在临床和大学中,都会有涉及到弗洛伊德的理论,但是，以耶鲁为例，你更可能在历史系或是文学系,听到弗洛伊德的理论,而不是在心理学系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Literary theory loses something that literary criticism just takes for granted.

有一样东西在文学评论是理所当然的,而文学理论却没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选