Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious world around him.

我们今天的作者高度赞赏文学的容量,能使人的声音具体化，以致他,想象出了一个宗教的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She reads a little Henry James because she thinks that makes her a better writer, somehow, but she doesn't quite know how.

她读过一点亨利，詹姆斯的作品,因为她认为那样会让她,成为一个更好的作家，但是，她却不知道怎么去做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If Milton as a poet who had never really published anything significant thinks of himself as a virginal writer, then there's an important way in which Milton loses his virginity with his published version of Comus in 1637.

如果弥尔顿作为一个诗人,或者作为一个童贞情节的作家,从来没有出版过任何自我思考的重要作品，那么就有很重要的一点,弥尔顿在1637年出版的《Comus》中失去了童贞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选