The costly D-Day battle would mark a turning point in the war, and would change the lives of survivors like Earl Norwood.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

It's a profound sense of jeopardy-- physical, mortal jeopardy and I want to point to those "huge, wobbly, white bags, like the full udders of cows."

这是一种强烈的危险感-,来自肉体和精神,我想谈谈,“白色的大袋子摇晃着，如同母牛涨涨的乳房“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Many in Britain point to events like the policing of the G-20 as further evidence the country's police are slowly drifting away from their long-standing traditional role as servants of the public.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

But it's also possible that it's a Homer Simpson-like effect, where when asked to point to what he wants, he just couldn't help but point to the one he wanted.

但也有可能这是一个类似于,霍莫·辛普森的效应,当被要求指向他想要的物体时,他只是情不自禁地指向了他想要的物体

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At that point,the gods don't like it because like the Judeo-Christian god, they want to have some boundary between the two,but for them it's very important, because the boundary is far from clear.

这样的话,诸神自然不高兴,就像犹太-基督教中的神灵一样,诸神需要人神之间有一道界限,这对诸神而言是非常重要的,因为界限本身就是模糊不清的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选