来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第17集 第17集》

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  or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay. "
  还是让他的心不变成另一块泥土"
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  I want you to read the sentence several times before Wednesday,
  我想让你们在星期三之前多读几遍这句话
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  and ask yourself if you can figure out what it means fully, all of it.
  再问问自己 你能否读懂他所有的意思
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  Parts of it are more clear than others.
  其中有些意义会比较明显
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  Think about the balance between the rhythm of that sentence
  感受这句话的韵律与内容的结合
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  and its content, the tone, what its tone says to you,
  还有语气 它用怎样的语气对你说话
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  what its diction says to you,
  它用怎样的措辞向你表达
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  and what the sentence itself actually says to you.
  句子本身又想告诉你些什么
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  So, that's what I'd like you to think about.
  那就是我要求你们考虑的
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  And on Wednesday I'm going to take this discussion of allusion,
  周三我会开始典故的讨论
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  and I'm going to sort of ball it up
  我会过有些闲散的生活
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  and it'll become part of another argument,
  那会成为另一个争论的某部分