来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第3集 第3集》

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  But you get scaffolding; you get depth or perspective:
  但当你看到脚手架的时候 你得往深了想或者想远点
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  counting thousands of stars, "moving as if they were about
  成百上千的星星 在非常缓慢地移动
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  some vast work that involved the whole order of the universe."
  仿佛它们是某种巨大的关乎全宇宙秩序的建筑工程
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  It vaults the very concrete materiality, the physicality,
  它跨越了这些人物及其
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  of these characters and their circumstances.
  所处环境的非常具体的物质性
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  It vaults that discussion into a much larger, metaphysical,
  它跨越了那种陷于更大的 形而上学的
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  transcendent context, the whole order of the universe.
  超越语境的 关乎整个宇宙秩序的讨论
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  It's moments like these when that omniscient narrator lives up to its
  就像那些时刻 让当那个神一般的叙述者名至实归
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  name, that sense of omniscience that we might associate with God.
  那种无所不知的感觉让我们联想到了上帝
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  Another example is at the very opening of the book:
  另一个例子就在这书的开头
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  The train was racing through treetops that fell away at intervals
  火车偶尔会穿过逐渐消失的树梢
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  and showed the sun standing very red on the edge of the farthest woods.
  看上去火红的太阳就像站在远方森林的边缘上