He bent to pick it up. Just as he was about to throw it into the wastepaper basket, he noticed that the letter was signed by his business partner, Thomas Antrim.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.

狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的，孤独地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角，眼望前方，然后转身消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And the geometry, which I didn't ask you, is going to be bent for this molecule.

几何形状，虽然我没有问你们，对于这个分子是折线型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

She bent over the basket touching her lips softly to the forehead of each sleeping rain baby.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Maybe that's miniscule, but maybe it's going to be fun for you, especially if you have a sort of theatrical bent, or if you like getting up in front of people, or if you're just really, really passionate about a novel that you want everyone to read.

这可能不值一提，但可能对你们来说很有意思，尤其如果你喜欢戏剧，或者喜欢在人们面前表现，或者你只是对这部小说很有热情,希望大家都来读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I bent my head backward to drink in the stars, and clearly I heard a song so sweet and pure I had to hold myself to keep from breaking.

VOA: special.2009.02.14