They were all waiting for the ice to melt so they could continue on to the gold fields.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Just ahead over the rolling wheat fields all golden beneath the distant snows of Estes I'd be seeing old Denver at last.

终于在一片翻滚着的金黄色麦浪后面,在隐约可见的白色的埃斯特斯山下，丹佛城出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In fact, there's a property of gravitational fields anywhere, even in outer space, but there is some residual field between all the planets and all the stars in the universe, that the force on a body is proportional to the mass of the body.

实际上,这是任何地方的引力场都具备的属性,甚至是在外太空,在所有的行星和恒星之间,存在着某种剩余场,在这个场里作用在物体上的力,和物体的质量之间存在比例关系

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But,the point is if the conditions were right and if farmers could get to their fields and if food could get to markets, people all over the world would have enough food to eat and today they do not."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14