Verse in which there is nothing but the beat of the metre furnished by the accents of the polysyllabic words we call doggerel. Verse is not that.

诗句中没有其他的东西,只有节奏,这节奏是由多音节的词造成的,我们叫打油诗，诗歌不是这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman?

是否巴尔扎克自己的，个人经历就是由女性哲学衍发出来的？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选