How do those stock phrases alienate you from the very experience you hope that they can describe?

那些陈腔旧调会怎样使,和你期望描述的体验渐行渐远？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On the far right is Christina Roberto, next to her is Anna Newheiser, Jeremy Chen in the middle, Ashley Gearhardt and Julie Huang.

最右边的是克里斯蒂娜·罗伯特,她旁边是安娜·纽海瑟,往中间依次是杰里米·陈,艾希莉· 吉尔哈特和朱莉·黄

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Satan may be like the wind, Orion, but Orion here is also seen as vexing and destroying the Egyptians whose carcasses wash up on the shores of the Red Sea, and the Israelites, having crossed the Red Sea safely, look on at this destruction from the safety of their shore.

撒旦或许像风神一样，但是这里的风神在怒吼，在摧毁着埃及人,他们的尸体横陈在红海上，而以色列人，却平安的穿过了红海，从安全的海岸回望身后的摧枯拉朽。

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if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.

如果我们现在好好思考一下南方的特点,也许首先,让我们想想所有关于南方的陈见,不难意识到,如果那么多人通过个人观察,写出的南方都大同小异,那么这些南方特点一定有其根源

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选