What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?

要是我就要死了，这所有的学习，努力，自我克制还都有什么意义“,-这是个好问题--要是我明天就死了呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, there is a sense, in the Plains Indian, that he is both the embodiment of a noble, restrained lineage; but also, deep in that American past, is this sense of great excess.

草原印第安人有一种感觉，他既是高尚的化身，克制的血统;,但同时，在那段美洲过往的深处，是一种过度的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选