But you're the man behind the decider who decides what the decider is going to read, to be informed of, to see, who he is to see.

但你是在决定人身后的人,你决定了他,要读什么，知道什么，看些什么，见哪些人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I asked each of them to bring a book that had informed that question for them, inside or outside of the classroom that they had read or what in Princeton.

我让他们每人带一本书来,这本书该为他们提供了对这个问题的提示,只要是他们在学校里课堂内外读过的都行。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.

他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同，那与你无关，那是关于其他事情的”

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But then also a little bit about your history, where you come from, some of your experiences which have helped you or informed your opinions on this very difficult issue that the entire world really is spending a lot of time trying to work on.

然后再谈谈你们各自的经历，你们从何而来，谈一些你们自己的经历,一些帮助过你们，或形成了你们,就这个复杂问题的观点,这个全世界都在投入大量时间试图解决的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选