One way to put it, especially in nineteenth-century realism which particularly interests Brooks, is all these characters are just madly making bad object choices.

一种解释的方式，用19世纪现实主义的观点来看,也就是布鲁克斯感兴趣的观点来看，就是小说中的人物在疯狂地做着错误的决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's just a fact that Milton is shockingly unembarrassed about making public all of his highest literary ambitions.

事实上弥尔顿对于把他的文学野心,公之于众一点也不尴尬。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I mean, I'm not making it up. It just does. They all are.

这可不是我瞎说的,事实就这样

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The oboe may have the seventh partial very strong and the third partial very strong whereas the trumpet-- I'm just making all of this up of course-- the trumpet may have the second partial and the fourth partial and the sixth partial.

双簧管的第七泛音,和第三泛音都很强,而小号,我只是为上课需要假设的,小号可能是第二泛音,第四和第六泛音比较强

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And she has that vision of the telephone wires, and she looks up at them as she has just doubted all of the possibilities for making sense of the post horn and the Tristero.

她看着电话线，边看着边怀疑着,弄清楚,译车号和post，horn的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选