We love to read and everything we read is a page turner, ; all to the good; but the fact is our fascination with reading isn't simply a fascination that takes the form of having fun.

我们喜欢阅读，并且总是迫不及待地翻到下一页，每一页都在讲好事;,但是事实上阅读真正令我们着迷的地方,并不在于简单的娱乐功用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I said that Yeats looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination, a compulsion almost.

我说过叶芝看待现代是,以一种害怕和好奇的感觉，一种难以压抑的冲动。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For weeks I've been investigating the murders with a certain morbid fascination.

几个星期以来,我一直在研究变态杀人。

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