They don't think so much of language as a mediating force as an expressive force.

他们不觉得这多么言语,是一种调和的力量，是一种表达的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Three: they declare that language is always mediated, always mediating, that your experience of people is never clear of some set of meanings that someone else has assigned to it.

他们声称语言一直被调停，也一直在调停，凭借你们对人们的认识，永远无法弄清,其他人赋予的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选