He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

There's a wonderful work of literary criticism -- I mentioned it last time --on Milton's indebtedness to Spenser in the book by John Guillory called Poetic Authority.

有一篇很棒的文学评论-,上次我提到了--关于弥尔顿对Spenser的感激,在约翰·久乐锐所著《诗人权威》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, give me two more minutes, I'm going to end, and a few of you, faces, I've heard this before, people that I know; but, I guess one reason why I'm in history--well, because I read a book a long time ago.

所以,再给我两分钟,我就要结束了,你们有些人,面孔,这我见过,有的人我认识,但是,我觉得我之所以搞历史,因为我很久以前读过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They helped make her book "Coming of Age in Samoa" one of the best-selling books of the time.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

As the essays move chronologically--they were written over a period of time--as the essays that were written near Lolita come into the book, that word appears, also, describing various things.

正如随笔是按时间顺序走向的，它们也是,有时间顺序的，随笔写的时候Lolita刚刚发表，那个字出现了，描绘了很多事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选