He stuttered and fluttered his hands and said, "Ah, ah, you must listen to, hear." We listened all ears, but he forgot what he wanted to say. "Really, listen. Ahem. Look.

两只手交握着说：,“嗯--嗯--你们一定要听我说“,我们听着，可是他忘了他想说什么“真的听我说--嗯，你瞧。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he walks to the kitchen and then he forgets why he's there and you run out there.

他进了厨房，却忘了自己要做些什么,这时你跑过去。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And one day so I was eating my ice-cream because the archives were closed, and this woman came up, and she was probably about fity, or something like that, and she ordered ice-cream, and so this guy says, "Well, Madame whatever, Madame Dupuis, you remember that day don't you, when the Germans came back?" And she said, "Oh I sure do, they hung my husband from that pole."

有一天我正吃冰激凌呢,因为档案馆关了,有个女人过来,她大概有五十岁,她要了个冰激凌,然后这哥们说,"我也忘了什么夫人了,杜普斯夫人,你还记得那天吧,德国人来的那天",然后她说,"我当然记得,他们把我丈夫吊在那根柱子上"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选