We didn't have e-book readers. Very,very few consumers had notebook computers.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.

直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们，自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Experts say the book explored different social subjects that were especially meaningful to English readers in the late nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It was very impactful to start a book that way because I doubt that hardly any readers actually write out a check on the spot to UNICEF; but if you don't, then you are in some sense responsible for the loss of 30 lives.

这是一个有力的开场白,因为我认为几乎不会有读者真的,会写张支票把钱寄给联合国儿童基金会,如果你无动于衷,那么你在某种意义上,要为那逝去的30个生命负责

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选