They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Whoever was writing the poems of Homer, whichever poets were contributing to that over the ages after the Mycenaean Period, they hadn't seen those Mycenaean sites.

不管是谁写的《荷马史诗》,无论那些诗人在迈锡尼文明之后,为该作品作出了多大贡献,他们都没见过迈锡尼文明遗址

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选