He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I move out of the room toward the bathroom, planning to brush my teeth. As I enter the bathroom, it's much more light, I look in the mirror and-- here's where things get really weird--I don't see anything.

我离开卧室走向浴室,要去刷牙,当我走进浴室时,光线明亮了些,我看着镜子,从这里情节就诡异了,我什么也没看到

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Take many of you through graduation When you leave Yale, what do you want--like, "I had X sexual partners, " and that's what I wanted" ? Or your lifetime?

如果你们多数都毕业了,当你们离开耶鲁时想要什么，诸如，“我有过X个性伴侣，那就是我想要的“,在你这一生呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选