The relativity of truth, the profusion of languages, these things that afflict Eliot are a source of faith for Stevens.

真理的相关性，语言的丰富性，这些折磨着艾略特的事物，对于史蒂文斯而言却是信仰的来源。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The drum beat is all about language.

一切都与语言密切相关。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选