It's all very well to say, "Look at me, I'm reconciling harmonies, I'm creating patterns, I'm showing the purpose of image clusters and all the rest of it," but if you keep doing it, what you have yoked together becomes unyoked again.

我们可以说，“看，我协调了冲突，我创造了形势说，我展现了意象群“,但是如果一直深入，你联系起来的东西又会再次分开了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选