How troubling though -- this seems undeniable -- and how strange that Woolf really at her most radical is echoing the very words of the power that she's opposing!

多么让人不解--但这又是不可否认的--多么奇怪,伍尔夫在她最激进的言论中附和弥尔顿的字字句句,而弥尔顿的力量正是她所反对的！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The mother has her own way of using words for power, and she does it by making the kitten live again in his imagination.

同样凭借语言，母亲让死猫在理查的心中复活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The moment Richard gains some power from the use of words, his mother takes it back by exerting that power herself, taking that power away from him.

理查用唇齿周旋,母亲以彼之道,还施彼身。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选