To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let's pretend that at work, your boss gives you too much work and not enough time to finish it.

假设你上班的时候，老板给了你太多的工作，你没有足够的时间来完成它。

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OK, now, we're going to look at the internal energy, and we're going to pretend that it is explicitly a function of temperature and volume.

好，我们接下来看看内能，我们假设,它是温度和体积的函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Let's pretend that you have gone out to a dinner with a friend and it has been delicious

假如你与一位朋友外出就餐，食物非常可口。

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Something is usually said about Kafka in connection with Wise Blood, but I have never succeeded in making my way through The Castle or The Trial, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Kafka.

经常有人说到卡夫卡,与《慧血》之间的联系，但我从来没有成功地,读懂《城堡》或者《审判》,我不会假装我了解卡夫卡的一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选