And his father was a democrat but not a Bolshevik; so, he was anti-czarist, but he was not a Bolshevik.

他的父亲是民主党人而非布尔什维克党人;,他反对沙皇，但他并不是布尔什维克党人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选