Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

VOA: special.2009.07.19

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's an old Saturday Night Live routine where one of the actors is in the doctor's office, and the doctor gives him the very sad news that he's got two minutes left to live.

有个周六夜现场的老桥段是,一个演员在医务室里，医生告诉他了一个非常悲伤的消息,说他还有两分钟活的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I still remember in my dreams at night the beautiful face of that old monk.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

That night after supper the old couple sat sleepily by the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Thursday night's joyous concert in Soweto featured rising South Africa star Lira who sang an old Miriam Makeba favorite, Pata Pata.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Ray Charles singing "Blues In The Night." Chet Baker with "I'm Old Fashioned."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Authorities say an intelligence tip related to a possible terror strike in the capital ahead of Independence Day ceremonies August 15 led to the arrests Thursday night in the parking lot of a shopping district in the old part of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

He was still breathing," In one of the cases this month, a 45-year-old Roma woman was killed in the eastern village of Kisleta and her 13-year-old daughter was seriously injured when police say gunmen broke into their home at night and shot the victims in their sleep.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22