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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  contradict most of what I said today.
  今天我所说的绝大部分内容
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  I'm going to set aside theology as the lens through which I read.
  我会把神学抛到一边 就像对待阅读时我所带的镜片
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  And, if you felt you were convinced by my reading of that iconography in
  如果你认为通过我对这些段落中图片的讲解已使你信服的话
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  these passages, then you want to think about why
  那你就得思考怎么会有
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  that's convincing.
  这样的说服力
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  You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give
  你们得思考下 作为读者 应该给予一位作家
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  to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.
  关于她工作意义的声明以多少关注
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  Maybe you want to say, "You can't argue with that;
  或许你们想说 你不能与之争论
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  we have to accept that.
  我们必须得接受它
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  That's really what the writer intends to say,
  那才是笔者真正想要说的话
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  and that's what we should see, and that's what we should strive to understand."
  那才是我们已经看见的 那才是我们为了领会它而为之奋斗的
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  Well, I'm going to offer you two different ways--
  好了 我给你们两种不同的方式