That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild.

这是天国的本分，我们的本分,喃喃念着一个个名字，像一个母亲叫着她的孩子们,当睡意最终降临,那跑野了的四肢。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And the difference between her as a child and her in this moment is that she had not bothered to find out.

在这一刻，就像一个孩子的她,和她自己之间的差异，不难被发现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I remember as a child and sometimes see the worries on her face and try to console her.

我记得小时候,看到她焦虑的神情,试着去安慰她。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Lily herself is a child who is completely unloved by her father.

莉莉是一个完全不被父亲喜爱的孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think it does factor into her sense that the truth she is accessing, or the truth that she is trying to present to the world in her stories, is one that even a child might be able to understand.

我想这确实是一个因素能让她觉得,她所触及的事实，或者说她通过故事向世人呈现的事实，连一个孩子也可能理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选