Yet,some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

I think you should never imagine in these real old poleis that got the thing started, that somebody said let's have a polis.

我想你一定难以想象这些城邦,在刚开始建立的时候,是某个人拍脑袋的想法

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

it's the one job that I could keep on doing and it never gets old.

只有这份工作我可以一直做，却不感觉它在变老。

我是摇滚音乐家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There was an old man on the boat whom I'd never seen before.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

His harmonious unity with nature is broken, he clothes himself and his old friends the gazelles run from him now He will never again roam free with the animals. He cannot run as quickly. His pace slackens, he can't even keep up with them.

他与自然的和谐被破坏，他开始穿上了外衣,以前的朋友羚羊，离他而去,他不再和动物一起，四处游荡,行动变得迟缓，再也无法赶上羚羊。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He would never be a Lassie or Benji or old Yeller;

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Meanwhile, his youth was going away and now this imaginary student is now thirty-three years old never had time to marry or start a normal life.

与此同时，他的青春年华也已经逝去了,现在这位设想出来的同学已经33岁了,还没有结婚也没有开始正常人的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Reopen no old wounds. Be as if you had never returned and looked in to me to see my laboring humilities, my few scrubbed pennies, hungry to grab, quick to deprive, sullen, unloved, mean-minded son of my flesh. Son! Son!"

不要再来碰我的伤疤，像你从前没有回来看过我似的,来看我的辛苦和谦卑，看我被掏得一干二净的钱袋，饿了抢，急了打，我亲生的没有感情，冷酷自私的儿子！“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nancy Dlamini, a 22-year-old student from Swaziland, thought Jackson was an icon who would never die but she is philosophical about his passing.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选