But today when I woke up, I knew I was going to have a bad hair day.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You can explain to the secretary that you woke up late and you had a terrible night because you fought with your wife.

你可以向你的秘书解释，你早上起晚了，昨晚你跟太太大吵一架，一整夜都没睡好。

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"We put out some vegetables for Santa Claus and a glass of water, and then when we woke up there was a note from Santa Claus."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And I say if you took a random sample of the Americans: "When you woke up in the middle of the night" and said: "What does the America stand for?"

我觉得如果给美国人做个抽样调查：,半夜醒来的时候“,被问到，美国人主张什么“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Yesterday when I woke up, I looked in a mirror.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

All right. So suppose that I woke up this morning, that is to say, at a certain point I look around my room and I see the familiar sights of my darkened bedroom.

假定我早上醒来,也就是说,我在某个位置上,环顾房间四周,看到了昏暗的卧室里熟悉的场景

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