So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's a way of becoming not just close to the real, but also part of some mystical unity.

这是一种不过于接近现实，保留着部分，神秘色彩的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Severe, unsentimental, dry, so much so as to be maybe even a little bit funny.

严肃，不带感情色彩，晦涩难懂,如此这般以至于又多了一份滑稽有趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Fierce loyalty partisanship: it is inseparable from the character of regime politics.

忠诚不二，党派色彩与政体政治的特性是,不可分割的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选