He revises it away from that to the more generalized, fundamental, but also very personal figure of the mother and the maternal.

但对母亲以及母性来说，这也是一很个人化的角色。

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This is something he revises from that old teacher.

这是他在他的老教师的基础上修正的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he modifies them or revises them or introduces new positions to deal with some of the difficulties that he was setting himself to be open to earlier.

他会调整,修改那些观点,或者以引入新观点,来解决先前他遇到的难题

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