Now, of course, O'Connor was very good at imbuing her writing with repeated symbols that grow and accrue meaning across the text.

当然，奥康纳非常善于,使文章充满那些贯穿全文,且意义不断积累、,不断强化的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Satan's described initially here as the wind god Orion, a classical figure who vexed or tossed the waves of the Red Sea, ; just as Satan is rousing and inspiring his fallen host of angels; but Milton continues to complicate the simile.

撒旦在这里最初被比作风神猎户，这是一个在红海上呼风唤浪的古典形象，就像撒旦在他的天使随从面前充满了威严;,但是弥尔顿接下来又使这个比喻复杂化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选