The printmaker first draws an image onto a smooth piece of wood.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

When I think of desire, this is the first image that comes to mind for me.

当我想到欲望时，这是首先出现在我脑海中的图像。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His behavior during the so-called Chappaquiddick incident he waited hours before reporting his accident to police provided the first of many cracks in the Kennedys' public image.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

It's as if Sal's first experience of Dean is already, in that scene, assimilated into the image of Dean: the disembodied, aesthetic image of Dean.

这好像是Sal第一次在那情景下，感到迪恩已经被同化成迪恩的形象：,空洞的，美的迪恩的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选