but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you

但两者仍存着极大的差异我将举一个例子说明
just by reading to you two parallel texts,

我会阅读两段类似的文本
one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.

一个是现代主义的标准版本另一来自垮掉一代的版本
So, first I want to read to you the footnote to T.S. Eliot's

首先我将阅读
The Wasteland.

TS艾略特的《荒原》的脚注
Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes,

《荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌
and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem

你们要问问自己
is in order to think that it needs footnotes?

为什么唯独这首诗需要做脚注呢
So, I'm going to say a little bit more about that,

等下我会对此详细讲解
but let me just read to you, first, from the notes on The

现在先让我读一段《荒原》的摘记
Wasteland: Not only the title,

不仅仅是标题
but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem

还有诗中的设计理念和许多附带的象征手法