The experience of having language speak through him and do things that he doesn't understand makes him want to acquire again that agency that he experienced when he took his father's words literally.

理查对自己所处的状态一无所知,说什么做什么都不明就里,这时的他渴望回到遵从父亲时期的状态,找回那种极富技巧的沟通方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal.

他的忏悔被绝望的虔诚悸动着,但这也不能为他那恶魔的狡诈赎罪，他是变态。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is the achievement of mastery, as Freud puts it and as Brooks follows him, that we can acquire through the repetition of a traumatic event.

这就是一种征服，就像弗洛伊德说的那样，而且布鲁克斯把这一思想延续下去，我们通过重复受到创伤的事件就可以理解了。

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Unfortunately, when he went through customers' in Japan, they would not let him in.

不幸的是，当他在日本过安检的时候，工作人员不会放行。

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What of course happened through the story was that she molded him more and transformed him.

当然故事讲完时,是她塑造了他，改变了他。

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Milton's blindness, the fact of his blindness, has shut out his view of the visible world, which would ordinarily present itself to him through the entrance of his eyes; and this shut-out will enable him, will help him, explore the invisible world of divine truth.

弥尔顿的失明，他失明的这个事实，遮住了,他看具体世界的目光，他通常是通过双眼,这个通道来看具体世界的，不过这种蒙蔽帮助了他，使他能够探索不可见世界中的神圣真理。

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Student: I agree with her. It's disturbing how much we identify with Humbert, how we're made to see the world through his eyes, and we kind of-- even I--grew to like him a lot.

我同意她的观点，小说扰乱了我们,对Humber的理解以及我们从他眼中看到的世界，我们有点，甚至我，开始非常喜欢他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选