"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yeah, in this relationship, I can't help think of this outsourcing problem.

嗯，说到印美关系，我总会想到外包问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选