We heard the back door close. Then the girl screamed.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

So, the parody is of something very close to home. And this poem that I've given you will come back on page 134. You don't have to turn to that now, but you should think about that return.

所以拙劣的模仿说得有点太露骨了,下面我要讲的诗在134页，你们现在不需要翻到那页,但你们得思考那个回答。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He's going to close it back down here with death and he's going to close it back down using a process that we frequently encounter in music, and that is this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

他要描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,他要用一种我们常在音乐中邂逅的方式,描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,这就是使不和谐音解构为和音,这个理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they have got.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"What happens when you get close to an anniversary is suddenly those images are back on TV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"Back in December,January, February and March, we were losing close to 700,000 jobs a month,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02