She says her goal as an artist is to present a pop record to the world in a very interesting way.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

I think it does factor into her sense that the truth she is accessing, or the truth that she is trying to present to the world in her stories, is one that even a child might be able to understand.

我想这确实是一个因素能让她觉得,她所触及的事实，或者说她通过故事向世人呈现的事实，连一个孩子也可能理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The needs of the present took all her energy.

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