I have a way to account for that, but it's going to take to the end of my argument to do that, so I'm going to argue that that's significant, but I'm not going to talk about why it's significant yet.

我对那有自己的理解，但是我在最后才会告诉你们，我要跟你们说，那点的意义是非常重大的，但我现在还不能谈论它的重大意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But, how many of you didn't experience it as understanding why you were having that response to Humbert, but just having it?

但是，你们当中有多少人并不理解自己对Humbert的反应,但就是那样反应着？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What I'd rather have is your interpretation of things like I thought this thing was really interesting and here's why, or I remember back in week two of the class we talked about this issue and it links up with what we're now talking about in week eight, or I just saw something on the news and here's how it relates, and all those sort of things are the way the concept sheets go.

我想看到的是你们自己对于问题的理解,比如我认为这个问题很有趣,原因如下,或是,我想起之前在第二周谈到的问题,和现在第八周正在讨论的内容有联系,或是,我看到条新闻和课程有所联系,这些东西都能写到观点报告里

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You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.

你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说，要告诉老师作者想表达什么，而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容，然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。

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