You don't face any facts. This same damned attitude of not facing facts is what got you into this messy state of mind in the first place, and it can't possibly get you out of it."

你没有面对现实，这个不面对现实的态度,在最开始就使你的心变乱了,也无法让你抽身出来“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the overall attitude of the planter class and the leadership class of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s, some were born to rule and some born to be ruled.

美国南方的19世纪40年代和50年代时,在普遍的种植园主阶级观念,和领导阶级观念中,有些人天生是统治者,有些人天生是被统治者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选