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Now, a foreword is of course supposed to suggest how you should read the text that's coming. And so, if we take it on in that role, let's see what we see.

现在，一个序言当然是要建议大家,去读一下那本书，还有，如果我们借鉴这个作用，让我们看一下这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You'll see this more and more clearly as you read through the text and as we talk about it.

你通过阅读文本,和参与讨论就会渐渐发现。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

At this original performance of the mask, the Lady's speech read by the Lady Alice Egerton, age fifteen, ended at line 779 in your text.

面具》最初的表演中，这位女士的演讲由15岁的爱丽丝，埃杰顿女士朗读，在你们书上的第779行结束。

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So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选