No one knows who put the kitten there or why.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

And we get such a dramatic vision of that in the next episode that follows, the episode of the kitten.

下面关于小猫的那里,有个令人难以忘怀的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Though I knew that I had killed the kitten, my mother's words had made it live again in my mind.

我虽杀了那只猫，可母亲让我对它改变了看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One cold January morning in nineteen eighty-eight, library workers found a small,almost frozen kitten in the book drop.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The mother has her own way of using words for power, and she does it by making the kitten live again in his imagination.

同样凭借语言，母亲让死猫在理查的心中复活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I had made him feel that if he whipped me for killing the kitten I would never gave serious way to his words again.

如果他因为我杀了小猫而打我的话,他会无从下台，我也不会再听他的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As I groped toward the dead kitten, my mother lingered behind me unseen in the dark, her disembodied voice egging me on.

在黑暗中，我向死猫走去，母亲以一种难以言表的威慑，于黑暗中催促着我，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选