And I think of that front and back of the page as another kind of knight's move. You think you're looking at one thing, and you land on another.

这让我想到这页的开头和结尾都是一种迂回前进,你认为你正在看某样事物,事实上你在看另一个。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What they cared about-- because the Roman Republic by this time was basically a bunch of very important households, wealthy men and their households, and they were the members of the Senate, they were the knight class, they were the people who ran Rome.

他们在乎的是。。。因为当时的罗马共和国,实际上就是一群举足轻重的家户，富有男子及其家户所组成，他们是元老院成员，是骑士阶级，罗马的统治者。

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The knight's move--which is just a playful way of describing where the window is, right-- the knight's move is nonetheless a kind of wound or damage. So, even as it's the prototype for originality, it's also something very disturbing and harmful.

一位骑士走过，这只是开玩笑地描述,窗户的位置，对，骑士的走过不可能造成,受伤或损害，所以，即使作为独创性的模板，它还是包含一些干扰和有害的成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. Think of those other violent knight's moves, like skipping past the mother's death.

我们得把关于风景的另一个回忆组成一对去理解,这个额外的想法，这个疏远的,十字纵横的景色描写可能是毁坏性的，想想其他的暴力的,迂回前进，比如跳过母亲死亡的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选