She learned a lot from Virginia Woolf.

她也借鉴了很多弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的东西
She wrote her MA thesis on Woolf and Faulkner,

她的硕士论文就是关于伍尔芙和福克纳的
on suicide in Woolf and Faulkner,

讨论伍尔芙和福克纳作品中的自杀内容
so she herself is highly educated,

所以她自己是接受过高等教育的人
deeply trained in the modernist avant-garde,

深受现代先锋派的影响
and yet she looks for a reader that has rejected all of that that she calls on so skillfully.

但她理想的读者却是那种不具备任何专业知识的人
Reading is such a vexed activity for Morrison

对莫里森来说阅读是一件很恼人的事情
that she represents both reading and writing as something like the equivalent of being the victim of rape.

以至于她将阅读和写作与被强奸等同
That pushes the idea of sympathy into another register altogether.

这种方法将同情感推向了另一个领域
It's a text that is essentially theorizing itself as reaching out to you--

这段文字最重要的作用是让你感到...
not in the sense just of making you feel like Cholly's an okay guy,

并不只是让你觉得乔利这个人还不坏
that he's human and not some monster--

他是个凡人而不是恶魔