Yet he could not laugh. He felt small agaist the comb shining from the old man.

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This is after the man from the filling station has given Haze some gas and not charged him for it, a very unusual act of kindness in this novel.

这是在一个加油站男人给了海斯一些汽油后,且没有向他要钱，这是在这部小说中非常少见的善行。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But then of course, the rise of the Enlightenment is also the rise of anthropocentrism, and by the time the Enlightenment is in full cry you get everybody from Blake to Marx to Nietzsche saying not that God invented man, but that man invented God.

但当然，文艺复兴的兴起也是人类中心说的兴起，到文艺复兴的繁盛时期,从布莱克到马克思到尼采,每个人在说不是上帝发明了人类，而是人类发明了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

(MUSCI) Old man Calvin worked in a wheat mill not far from his house.

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