她被迫学习的课程都是枯燥无味的东西,没有任何意义的事实,以最简单的语言给出,仿佛言语可能会掩盖真相,或者更糟糕的是让它变得栩栩如生。
(The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or {worse} bring it to life.)