A few years later, she married the trumpet player of her band, Pedro Knight.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

Any genuinely new trend is a knight's move. I just remind you, in chess the knight doesn't move in a straight line.

所以，任何新趋势都是迂回前进，我只是提醒大家一下，在国际象棋中马是不走直线的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Both are retired, but Knight is considering a return to coaching.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The knight's move--which is just a playful way of describing where the window is, right-- the knight's move is nonetheless a kind of wound or damage. So, even as it's the prototype for originality, it's also something very disturbing and harmful.

一位骑士走过，这只是开玩笑地描述,窗户的位置，对，骑士的走过不可能造成,受伤或损害，所以，即使作为独创性的模板，它还是包含一些干扰和有害的成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

With the success of The Dark Knight we were in a position where the studio was prepared to put a lot of faith in us and trust us to really do something special."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

So the knight, far from going on a straight course, surprises you.

所以马，不像其他走直线的棋子，它会给你出其不意的惊喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Here, being in exile prevents Nabokov from making that knight's move. And you might think about that homophobic attitude to a Proustian past, the fear that it's too like what he wants to do.

因为被放逐的事实，纳博科夫不能,实现迂回前进，大家可能会想到他对,普鲁斯特过去持有的恐同性恋的态度，想到他的恐惧。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选