For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There are going to be so many people there looking at me. It's so overwhelming.

到时会来很多人，他们都会盯着我看的。这真是压力巨大啊！

I'm worried 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.

在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And my arguement is that in our history and today living up to our values or trying to live up to our values is as much a part of our power as a big army.

我要说明的是，无论在历史上还是今天,坚持这些价值观,或者试着坚持,给我们所带来的巨大力量，绝不亚于一只庞大的军队。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And one claim, which we're going to return to briefly next class when we talk about language, is that there's a very, very big difference between a creature that doesn't have language and a creature that does.

我们下节课讲述语言时,会简单地讲述一个观点,也就是在未掌握语言的生物,与掌握语言的生物之间,存在着巨大的差异

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And, at the very beginning there was a train that went around the Wall of Paris, more about the walls of Paris another time, that's fun to talk about, and Parisians would take picnic lunches, and they'd get on the train, and then they'd hear these large explosions and realize that they could get killed by these large explosions.

一开始的时候,有一趟火车,是绕着巴黎城墙行驶的,下次我们多讲讲巴黎的城墙,这挺值得一谈,巴黎人会带着午餐便当,坐上火车,然后他们听见了巨大的爆炸声,突然意识到他们可能会被炸死

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The other thing that I mentioned last time was that there seems to be a really big difference between the expected return on the stock market and the expected return on short-term debt.

上节课提到的另一条内容是,股票市场的预期收益,与短期债券的预期收益,存在着巨大差异

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选