It had been my accidental reading of fiction and literary criticism that had invoked in me vague glimpses of life's possibilities.

我偶尔会读小说和文学评述,这让我隐约地窥探到,生活的可能性，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What I want you to notice first of all is the kind of reader that's being invoked here for that modernist classic Ulysses.

首先希望你们注意到的是,所有开始阅读现代主义经典,《尤利西斯》的读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The great Milton can be invoked here because he has already been established as an authority.

伟大的弥尔顿在这里之所以被引用,是因为他已经确立了他的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There is generally a concluding invocation of witnesses, usually the gods are invoked as witnesses to a binding oath, some kind of covenantal oath that brings the treaty into effect, and it's witnessed by gods.

一般也包括一段援引见证人的文字，一般是上帝见证一个有约束力的誓言的诞生，这个誓言可以使条约生效，上帝是见证人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton has invoked, of course to his own detriment--what was he thinking?

弥尔顿这么援引明显对己不利--他到底在想什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选