The number of newly-laid off workers jumped unexpectedly to 471,000 last week, PNC Financial chief economist Stuart Hoffman says the data point to continued layoffs and weak job creation in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

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

If we take this simple straightforward view and say you're dead when you're not P-functioning anymore, then you were dead,on and off and on and off,last night.

如果我们就用那直接简单的观点,说你就是死了，不再有人格功能了，昨晚你就不断地死亡和复活中度过。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选