"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

If Haze is busy looking at something, what he's looking at is manifestly not the person in front of him.

如果当时Haze的目光,正专注于什么，那也显然不是面前的这个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They only stood there looking in at him.

他们只是站在那里看著他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选