The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选