If it weren't for the New Critics, none of you probably would have been able to sit patiently through any of your middle or high school English classes.

不过我现在要说的是，如果没有新批评派，在座的同学之中没有人,能耐着性子坐在教室里,听中学语文课。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

PROFESSOR: English, no. Biology I heard it. Biology.

教授：语文？错，是生物,我听到了，是生物。

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