There's a way in which the context of the war, too, shadows the poem and remains present in it.

在战争的背景下，也投影于诗中同时也保持了它的现实性。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

If I present the same thing in another context or background or environment, then you react very differently.

如果我用另一种表述方式来叙述同样的事件,或者更换背景及环境，你的反应会完全不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选