You try hard to keep warm. The days are shorter and darker.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

He's taken it from somebody else, ; and in doing so I think he's doing this deliberately; he's exposing some of the darker ironies behind his own literary ambition.

但他从别人那里借用了这个说法，他的做法让我认为他是故意这么做的;,他这是在他自己自由意志的背后,表现一些尖刻的讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

当我看到白桦树弯下身子，向左，也向右,穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树，我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Its name comes from the design of darker shapes on its hair.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The days are shorter. It is getting darker earlier each day.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

If your have good eyesight from the distance that you're at you can see the vessels leading out of the heart and into the lungs, and the lungs are these darker spaces within the ribcage.

如果你的视力足够好的话,你们能看到,由心脏发出血管,进入到肺部,肺是胸腔里这片比较暗的部分

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And, yet, think about the qualities of sound that are so different between "across the lines of straighter darker trees" and "I like to think some boy's been swinging them."

想想这音律的特别之处,这两句有很大的区别,“穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树“,我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Let's do "the lines of straighter darker trees."

我们来看，“排列成行的挺直黑黑的树“这句“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Across the lines of straighter darker trees."

穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选