that after Lolita.) But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to contribute his imagination, and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal.

有些人可能就会那样想）,但我的意思是,读者必须知道何时何地需要发挥想像力,这样以看清作者所设置的特定的世界,在这篇小品文中。

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

Of course, as you have guessed, the good reader is the one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary and some artistic sense, which sense I propose to develop in myself and others whenever I have the chance.

当然，就像你们猜到的那样，好读者拥有想像力、好记性、,一本字典和几分艺术感，我建议一有机会,就进行自我及他人的艺术感培养。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The reader should have imagination."

读者要有想像力“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now I want you to use it.

现在我希望你们能发挥想像力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选