读一本书需要时间和精力——这让读者随时有机会走开不读。

A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away.

youdao

继续帮你算算：进一步假设你只致力于阅读过去250年的作品，也就是不读任何1761年以前的作品，这已经覆盖了卷帙浩繁的作品。

Let's do you another favor: Let's further assume you limit yourself to books from the last, say, 250 years. Nothing before 1761.

youdao

这或许也是为什么人们常说“少不读《红楼》”的原因之一吧。

This maybe one reason why it's often said that young people shouldn't read a book like A Dream of Red Mansions.

youdao

It's also the subject of "Neither Out Far nor In Deep," which I asked you to read for today and is on page 220.

这也是“不深也不远“的主题“,我让你们读的那首诗,在220页。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Any--I won't read this but this is a typical bit of Nazi propaganda.

这一段我不读了，但这是…,一个典型的纳粹政治宣传。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选