不要相信他的话，这样的事根本不存在。

Don't believe him. Such a thing doesn't exist.

youdao

他们没有怜悯之心，西方对这些事根本没有怜悯心。

They have no mercy, the West has no mercy on these things.

youdao

韦恩弗利小姐说他杀死自己金丝雀的事根本不对，他绝对不会做那种事。

The story about his killing Miss Waynflete's canary – it was all wrong.'

youdao

Those for me are the fundamental questions. You see what I mean?

对于我来说，这些事最根本的问题？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Because it implies that it seems as if the person you are speaking with has never done that thing.

因为你在暗示跟你谈话的人似乎根本没做过那件事。

Do you ever课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选