This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.

这是理查德第一次做他后来描述门肯所做的事，用语言作为武器。

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Mencken considered most Americans to be stupid and violent fools.

门肯觉得大多数美国既愚蠢又粗野。

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But many young people thought Mencken was a hero whose only crime was writing the truth.

但是，许多年轻人觉得门肯是一个英雄，他唯一的罪过就是写下事实。

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This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.

如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His discovery of Mencken using words as weapons in a political sense is a very powerful moment for him in his intellectual development.

门肯在政治领域以唇当剑,的艺术让他受益非浅,这种主动进取。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Edgar Lee Masters They are Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters Lewis H.L. Mencken, Anderson, and Lewis: all American writers. Compare that with the catalog that he gives of his reading on 249, and you'll see what's being elided.

有德莱塞,门肯，Anderson和：,对比一下,他在249页讲的那类作家，你们会发现他隐去了一些内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

L. Mencken, who became an early mentor and whose cigar-waving directness and contrariness appealed to him.

NEWYORKER: This Woman��s Work

L. Mencken and such other lampooners of cant and inauthenticity as Dorothy Parker and W.C.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity

Mencken understood the American people better than they understood themselves, and he eloquently shared his understanding with unsparing wit.

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