But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I think he writes so much better than his brother, Henry James, an obscure novelist.

我认为他比他写晦涩小说的哥哥,亨利，詹姆斯要好得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I mention the names of Tolstoy Henry James and perhaps the greatest of all Jane Austen if you want to know a novelist who employs this great skill of judgment discrimination and practical reason.

我必需提到托尔斯泰,亨利？詹姆斯或者,还有最伟大的珍？奥斯汀,以上是如果你们想知道,哪一位作家援用这种伟大的判断,识别力与实际推理技能的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选