Standing in line is a form of social cooperation.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He is imagining a literary form that is soaked in the stuff of social life.

他在构想着一种渗入生活的文学形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选