来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第13集 第13集》

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  you are bringing into yourself a deadly kind of poison,
  你是在喂自己一味致命毒药
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  and it's the poison that destroys Pecola's mother
  就是这味毒药毁了佩科拉的妈妈
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  and Pecola herself in her desire for the blue eye.
  也毁了佩科拉自己 因为她产生了想要一双蓝眼睛的愿望
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  The primer is run together
  启蒙读本嵌在小说中
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  so that we can see how it becomes nonsensical in the context of Pecola's life.
  使我们看到佩科拉的生活环境是如何变得越来越不正常的
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  But there is a profound indictment of reading,
  但这里有更为深刻的针对阅读的申诉
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  and so you have to ask yourself what kind of reader does Morrison want?
  你会想问莫里森想要的什么样子的读者
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  And this, I think, has a complex answer.
  对此 我认为答案很复杂
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  It is not just that Morrison wants to indict a certain kind of reading on the Dick and Jane model.
  莫里森不仅是在表达对迪克和珍妮这类文章的不满
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  It's deeper than that.
  还有更深层的意义在其中
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  In her Nobel-Prize-winning speech, she writes about her ideal reader.
  在获得诺贝尔奖的演讲中 她描述了理想读者的样子
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  Actually, I think it's either in one of her essays, or in that speech.
  可能不是在那篇演讲中 就是在一篇她的随笔中提到过