his fiction classes, and it had on it all the traditional

其中囊括了所有传统短片小说的
tricks and structures of the short story form.

写作技巧和结构
It was three or four pages single-spaced typed,

一共三四页并且是单倍行距
things like, "if there are five pistols hanging

比方像"如果墙上挂着五把枪
on the wall, by the end of the story,

到了故事最后
they all have to go off," these totally structural observations

必将全部开枪走火"这种关于
about how to write a piece of short fiction.

写好一短篇小说的系统性论述
It's so appropriate: in my various moves in my life,

它写得非常恰当可惜经过数次搬家
I lost this piece of paper, and I have never been able to find it.

我不慎丢失了这份资料再没找到
And I've tried to be in touch with him about it,

我试图和他联系
and I couldn't get it from him either.

但也没找到这份资料
So, this is one of the sad things about teaching Barth for me.

这也算是我教授巴斯作品中的一桩憾事