It's almost as if the entire point of a pastoral is that it is set in a world that neither the urbane poet nor the urbane reader has actually any real experience with.

似乎田园诗的全部意义就在于它的背景设在田园,而不管是都市诗人还是都市读者,都没有任何实际的田园经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选