It's as if they're sneaking up behind her.

好像那些腿和脚是藏在她后面似的
It's as if they're separate from her, not part of her body at all.

似乎它们与她是分离的完全不是她身体的一部分
So, even when you see O'Connor describing the emergence of a body from the water

我们发现即使是描述身体从水中出现的情景
-- a moment when you'd think the whole body

一般来说人们会认为
would be most on view, or most pertinent to describe--

这个时候身体的大部分都能够被看见
what you have is almost a distortion of our senses, a distortion of vision,

大家却经历了感官上的扭曲视觉的扭曲
so that we see -- even in a woman climbing out of the water--

我们在一个从水中爬出的女人身上看到
her legs, her feet, as dismembered from the rest of her body.

她的双腿双足与她身体的其他部分是分离的
There is a critic at the University of Michigan.

密西根大学有一个评论家
Her name is Patricia Yaeger.

她叫帕特里夏?耶格尔
She wrote a very compelling argument about O'Connor's fiction--

她写过一篇非常著名的关于奥康纳的评论
not about Wise Blood particular, but about her stories.

不是特别论述《智血》而是关于她的作品