If there is atmosphere in the passage I'm about to quote from Macbeth, it must be atmosphere of a certain kind and there for a certain reason.

如果下面这篇《麦克白》里的选段有所谓的“气氛“,那这种气氛一定因为某种原因以某种形式存在着。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So the car--going back to the passage Essex that I was talking about before with the Essex--the car even though religion is not mentioned directly right here, the sense of home that it embodies, carries with it all that sense of unhousedness.

回到文章中,我之前提到的车,尽管这里没有直接提到,关于宗教的东西，但是它体现了家的意味，带有一种浓重的无家可归之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选