So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico, and a land of criminality, the reform school.

他的信从新墨西哥这片西部的土地而来，还是寄宿学校这种犯罪滋生地。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'" So, there is that sense of the West as a source, and what he's going to do is take them back East.

我从未见过像他们一样的人’,’我在西部遇到他们的’“,对新西部的感觉成了一个源点，而他正想要把这群人带回东部。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选