This is talking about his father's cherished volume of Shakespeare's

这段讲他父亲珍藏的莎翁戏剧的书卷
plays, the oversized book with the floppy leather binding that,

那本超大的书册被松垮的皮面束着
when Coleman was a small boy, always reminded him of a cocker

在科勒曼还是个男孩时常常让他想起
spaniel. "The son felt his father's

可卡犬"儿子感到父亲前所未有的
majesty as never before, the grandeur of both his rise and

威严他的崇高起起伏伏
his fall, the grandeur that as a college

就像一个大学新生
freshman away for barely a month."-- [And then it quotes from

仅离校一个月的崇高"
Shakespeare.]

之后是引用莎士比亚的话
The cocker spaniel: Why?

可卡犬为什么
Why choose that as what the little boy thinks of when he looks

为什么用这个来形容小男孩对那本
at that floppy volume?

松垮的书籍的感觉
It's a moment when being trained to classify and to categorize causes

在被训练归纳分类的这个片刻