I think of that story that all of you have probably read in school, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

你们都在学校读过奥布莱恩的，他们所携带之物。

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I actually thought it was hard to understand, just what was happening, the action part of the story. It might have been that I read it too quickly. Uh huh. Harder than "Menelaiad" to understand? No.

事实上，我认为它很难理解，就是到底发生了什么，即故事中的动作部分，也可能是我读得太快的缘故,所以不太理解罢，比《梅尼洛斯》更难懂吗，不是的。

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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