"Doing all the things that we read about. We want to see that come to life.

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He had read much, if one considers his long life, but his contemplation was much more than his reading.

人们说他漫长的一生，便一定会说他饱读诗书，但他的思想却比他的阅读丰富得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So things you should do in life: read Shakespeare and see a soccer game.

你这辈子该干的两件事是,读莎士比亚的书还有去看场足球比赛

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The poems come to you abstracted from the contexts in which they were originally produced and read, from their place in a body of work, in a book, in a magazine, in a life that produced it.

一首首诗，从原始创作和阅读的形态,被分割的分离错杂，从它们在书，杂志，一系列的作品中，在最初的创作生命中，都是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选