In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.

下面我将把这堂课的，第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查，怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It disappears and comes back, and at that time his mother, who is actually Freud's daughter, was going out to work for the first time on some days, and the boy was getting used to letting her go.

它又消失了之后又出现了，在那时他的妈妈，实际上是弗洛伊德的女儿，正准备,第一次出去工作一段时间，男孩正慢慢习惯,让她出去。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He grew up in the waning years, the last years, of the Elizabethan era, and he was a boy when Shakespeare's most famous plays were first performed.

他成长在，伊丽莎白时代的衰落期，最后几年，当莎士比亚著名的戏剧第一次被搬上舞台时,他还是个男孩。

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And when we go to the title page of A Boy's Will we see that this New England poet publishes his first book, in fact, in London in 1913, there on New Oxford Street.

当我们看到“少年的意志“这个题目时,我们知道他在新英格兰发表这第一本书时，实际上是1913年在新牛津街。

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So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选