But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or to choke a stray cat to death with your bare hands?

抑或，亲手掐死一只流浪猫？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选