Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a new World Championship record in the men's 10,000 meters, breaking the tape in 26 minutes,46.31 seconds.

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Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's almost as if the entire point of a pastoral is that it is set in a world that neither the urbane poet nor the urbane reader has actually any real experience with.

似乎田园诗的全部意义就在于它的背景设在田园,而不管是都市诗人还是都市读者,都没有任何实际的田园经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In the 1960s, to have a protagonist go into the world and discover this incredibly complex set of patterns, and to have that protagonist be a housewife, was very much playing against type.

在60年代让一个主角深入世界,去探索它难以置信的复杂，而且将其设置为一个家庭主妇，是与常规背道而驰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In Gravity's Rainbow he did enormous amounts of research in newspapers from the Second World War in London where some of the novel is set, so that you can go to newspapers and find the ads that he talks about in the novels.

充满了人类历史的碎片的丰富世界,在伦敦写《万有引力之虹》的时候,他在报纸上查阅了,大量关于二战的信息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选