I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's just historicizing otherness in a way that somehow or another satisfies my quest for information.

只是给相异性赋予历史意义,它满足了我对知识的渴求。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Three: they declare that language is always mediated, always mediating, that your experience of people is never clear of some set of meanings that someone else has assigned to it.

他们声称语言一直被调停，也一直在调停，凭借你们对人们的认识，永远无法弄清,其他人赋予的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选