The panting and happy reader, and there they spontaneously embrace and are linked forever if the book lasts forever.

是气喘吁吁却兴高采烈的读者，他们在这里,不由自主的相拥，只要作品永存，他们就永不分离。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nabokov cannot meet his reader on the misty mountain ; because somebody has to agree to publish this book first; it has to exist in the world before that reader can meet it.

然而纳博科夫却不能在这座巅峰上与他的读者相遇,因为在那之前必须有人先同意出版那本书;,在读者遇到那座山峰之前，它必须首先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Right, OK. So what I do to open the book is to ask the reader to image that they walking past a shallow pond, maybe somewhere in the park or or university campus.

好的，我在这本书的开篇,请读者想象这样一个画面，你走过,一个浅浅的池塘，可能是公园里,或是大学校园里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I thought it was very impressive that he put that on page one of the book because it puts the reader in a moral dilemma.

我觉得这种做法令人印象深刻,他把这个地址放在书的第一页,这会使读者陷入一种道德上的两难处境

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Gives you a little sense of Hobbes' spirit, his humor, the wry wit that becomes apparent on almost every page of this book, but you have to be a careful reader.

这体现了一部分霍布斯的精神，他的幽默感，他的诙谐风趣,而这些也明显体现在他的每一页书里，你们必须非常仔细地读。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So this is what he asked them to do: Select four answers to the question 'What should a reader be to be a good reader?' "The reader should belong to a book club."

这就是他要求学生们做的：,从以下四个选项中选取问题,“读者如何才能成为好读者”的答案：,“读者应该是书友会的成员“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The reader should have seen the book in a movie."

读者应该看过这本书改编成的电影“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选