The workplace would become less personal, bigger, uncontrollable.

工作场所会倾向于,公开化,更巨大,更加不可控制

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Less than one percent, less than one percent of the real and personal property, in both South and North by the 1850s, was held by approximately fifty percent of free adult males.

不到百分之一,不到百分之一的不动产和动产,在十九世纪五十年代的南方和北方一样,由大约百分之五十的自由成年男性持有

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选