What if we dared to look at the world just as it is?

如果我们敢于面对世界的本相会怎样?

What shape would it show us? What shape?

它会是什么形状? 什么形状?

The problem, when it comes to literature, is this:

讲到文学 往往遇到这么个问题:

about what literature is supposed to be,

先入为主的成见

Hey, remember how excited you were when she got the job?

还记得她找到工作时你是多么激动吗

because I happen to be young and female.

就因为我年轻 而且是个女的

I'm assuming that many of you have probably arrived here

我猜你们中许多人

I'm assuming that at least some of you are sitting there

我猜你们中至少有些人坐在那