这门课的主要目的是提高英语会话能力。

The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English.

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So, at any rate, this seemed to me to be, when I started teaching this course, reasons not to teach it.

因此无论如何对我来说，当我开始教这门课的时候决定不说它的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

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I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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