The problems that Frost's poetry poses for us as readers are not problems of reference. They can't be solved by footnotes.

他的诗歌给我们的困难,不是参考的问题，它们不能就用脚注解决。

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Compare the footnotes in the Frost poems to the footnotes in The Norton that you find next to Eliot or Pound's poems.

把弗罗斯特的脚注跟诺顿的比较,就是在艾略特和庞德旁边的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes, and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem is in order to think that it needs footnotes?

荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌，所以你们需要问问自己：,这首诗究竟有什么特别,而使得它必须要有脚注呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Perhaps I live my life in the footnotes of other people.

或许我的一生都花在别人的脚注上。

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The Republic is a book about the regime and all later political philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato and that means that it must provide a series of variations so to speak on Plato's conception of the best regime.

理想国》是一本关于政体的书,之后所有的政治哲学都不过是一系列,对柏拉图的批注，也就是说，它必需提供,一系列的差异来解释,柏拉图概念中的最佳政体。

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That's the introduction to the footnotes.

这是对脚注的介绍。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选