来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第16集》

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  The lake is imagined to contain whole and undecayed all the objects of the past that have been lost in it.
  那个湖完好无损地包含丢失在里面的一切
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  So memory is imagined in the same terms, so that you could always
  记忆也是同样 你总能
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  bring them up to the surface and there they would be, whole.
  把完好无损地记忆带到水面上来
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  So, the resurrection imagined, if you run the film backward of the
  露丝的复活 如果你把电影回放到
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  train slipping in to the lake-- I read that passage last time--the
  火车滑进湖里那一幕 我上次读过这段
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  kind of resurrection imagined, is the way memory works.
  这种想象中的复活 是记忆作用的结果
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  But more specifically it's the way the language of memory works.
  更具体地说 是记忆的语言作用的结果
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  And I want to read my own favorite passage.
  我想朗读我自己最喜欢的一段
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  This is at the very end of the novel, and I want you to think,
  在小说的末尾 我希望大家思考
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  as I read it, about the difference between this
  这一段和我读过的《最蓝的眼睛》中
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  passage and the one I read from Bluest Eye about Pecola,
  关于皮克拉的那一段 有何不同
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  that passage of negativity about her being a kind of blank or a negative,
  关于她作为黑人 或者说一种负面存在