Having said that, there's really nothing so dead as The Norton Anthology,or ponderous, and I do order it with a little--well, some misgivings for that.

顺便说，没有哪本书,会比《诺顿诗性颂》更加无趣，或者说冗长乏味，我买这本书的时候就有点焦虑不安。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I can't picture or imagine my being dead.

无法想象自己的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I was in The British War Museum, the Imperial War Museum the other day, and I'd been there four or five times, and I went--and they have a thing where you can look up dead people.

我去过英国军事博物馆,有一天去帝国军事博物馆,我去过四五次了,我又去了,那有一个,东西你可以搜索阵亡人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It rises in the Sea of Galilee or the Kinneret in the north, and then it flows about 65 miles, I believe, down to the Dead Sea.

它在加利利海处高起，或者是北部的Kinneret湖，它流过大约65公里，进入死海。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There's a magician, I think his name is The Amazing Randi, who has a sort of standing offer; he says, "You show me what happened in the seance or in communication with the dead or what have you, and I'll show you how to do it.

有这样一个魔术师,好像他叫 "令人惊奇"的兰迪,他有一个长期的悬赏,他说,你展示给我看通灵,或如何同死人交流,我就告诉你这是怎么做到的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选