I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He lived in the summers on a country estate outside St. Petersburg, in a beautiful chateau. And his uncle owned the chateau down the road, and actually left it to him when he was a very young man.

夏天的时候他住在圣彼得堡外漂亮的乡村城堡，那是他叔叔的城堡，并在Naboko很小的时候就把它送给了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选