This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

If you knew your way around in the funhouse like your own bedroom, you could wait until a girl came along and then slip away without ever getting caught, even if her boyfriend was right with her.

如果你在开心馆中跟自己在寝室里一样熟悉门道，你可以等一个姑娘前来，事后溜之大吉,绝不会被人抓住，即使她男朋友就在旁边。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Oh, in fact, the girl that she was tutoring was having a birthday party or something like that...

哦，其实，她教的那个女孩当时办了生日聚会或是类似的活动……

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There was not enough action. In fact,she says one of her great disappointments was that her own daughters did not like the books nearly as much as she did as a girl.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It's almost like what you looked for in a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout.

这就像对男童军,或女童军的要求

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I was in line for the bathroom." "He was like 'come over here' and I was like 'I gotta go!' You're a girl you think ' ' but then I was like ' he would never do that.' oh wouldn't that be romantic?

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

And then "Big Bang Theory", it's like, you know, a bunch of nerds and one hot girl.

然后是《生活大爆炸》，它是关于一群呆子和一个性感的女孩子的剧。

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