Well, it's a God symbol. It's even got that typical children's book iconography of the curls and the white beard. Okay.

这象征着上帝，它甚至与典型的儿童,插图中的卷曲状和白色胡须状一模一样，好了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And, of course, as we go on, as I'll show you, the curls and the beard are pared away, and you're left more with that blinding whiteness.

确实，我们继续，我会向你们展示，卷曲状和胡须状的图像,慢慢褪去，你们仍旧会看到亮白色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So this is like your children's book representation of the Christian God, and there it is as a blinding white cloud. You wouldn't even need the curls and the beard if you just had the blinding and the white.

这就像你们儿童书里上帝的代表，它就像一朵亮白的云，你甚至不需要,卷曲状和胡须状的图像，即使你只看的，亮白。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The sky was just a little lighter blue than his suit, clear and even with only one cloud in it, a large, blinding white one with curls and a beard." Notice that image of the cloud, the blinding white cloud.

天空比他身上蓝色的西装颜色更亮，更清朗，甚至,空中只有一朵白云，是大而亮白的螺旋状和,胡须状，注意这多云的图像，一朵亮白的云。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选