And that a burden was taken off the South by the loss of that Vietnam War.

越南战争惨败,卸下了南方的重负

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I actually want to change that around, if I might, and play with that, because that's a really useful image for us: "takes the mask off literature and reminds us how we come to be sympathetic or Richard Wright how we come to think something." Think back to Richard Wright, who wants words to disappear, to be completely transparent and to leave you just with your response.

实际上，我想要改变一点，可能的话，玩弄一下，因为那对我们是很有用的画面：,把文学的面具卸下,我们是如何同情,或思考事物的，回想一下，他希望文字消失，而变成透明的，只剩下你们的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选