Maybe the right way-- imagine somebody who was in a room with remote control television setup and so forth and so on.

也许正确的思路是...,想象某个人在一个房间里面,拿着一个类似于电视遥控器之类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选