You may have noticed that I am very fond of reading aloud to you from these novels. I'm very fond of reading out passages.

你们也许注意到了我很喜欢大声读这些小说给你们听,我很喜欢读一些片段。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选