In bad times, the desert turns into a barren wasteland, challenging the survival skills of even the hardiest of people and their animals.

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This is not a wasteland of thought by any means, and the Russian formalists are an important part of what's going on.

俄国并不是一座思想的废都，形式主义者是思想界很重要的一个部分。

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So first I want to read to you the footnote to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland.

首先给你们读一段艾略特的《荒原》的脚注。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes, and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem is in order to think that it needs footnotes?

荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌，所以你们需要问问自己：,这首诗究竟有什么特别,而使得它必须要有脚注呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选