You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Now if all we have to go on is just this semiotic system, it's going to be kind of hard to put up resistance to by the same token we'll say "yellow" means "pause," "green" means "go."

而从语义学角度分析，我们必须不能这么想,这样绿色自然就表示继续，黄色表示暂停“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

What is useful is point to somebody and say, "You in the green sweater, call the police," and the psychological evidence is if you--if somebody's-- if I am wearing the green sweater and somebody asks me to call the police I will call the police. I'm a good guy.

有用的办法是，指着某个人说，“穿绿色毛衣那个人，快报警”,心理学证明如果你…,如果我穿着绿色毛衣,有人叫我报警,我会报警，我是好人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Supporters of green schools say their goal is to expand the movement across the country.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

> So this thing here, when green flag clicked say, oh, hi world, this was perhaps the simplest program we could write in Scratch.

>，我们先看看这个例子，“点击绿旗“下面显示“,这也许是我们用Scratch软件写出的最简单的，程序了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That person may say he is green with envy.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But an even more astounding result for us from this survey, which encompassed 1,000 adults a random telephone survey in January of this year, was that over 800 of the respondents - that's over four out of five people - say they are still buying green products, still buying green products in a very severe recession."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30