They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She reads a little Henry James because she thinks that makes her a better writer, somehow, but she doesn't quite know how.

她读过一点亨利，詹姆斯的作品,因为她认为那样会让她,成为一个更好的作家，但是，她却不知道怎么去做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She says that she has read a little bit of Kafka and "doesn't know what to make of him, but it makes you a bolder writer."

她说她读一点点卡夫卡的作品,而且“不知道是什么造就了卡夫卡，但这可以让自己成为,一个更大胆的作家“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So she had just finished Wise Blood, and people are starting to read it, ask her questions.

是给一个叫做Ben，Griffith的人，当时她完成《慧血》的写作，人们开始读这部作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选