"She thought a Latina woman, someone with her background, would be a better judge than a guy like me, a white guy from South Carolina,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.

现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And one day so I was eating my ice-cream because the archives were closed, and this woman came up, and she was probably about fity, or something like that, and she ordered ice-cream, and so this guy says, "Well, Madame whatever, Madame Dupuis, you remember that day don't you, when the Germans came back?" And she said, "Oh I sure do, they hung my husband from that pole."

有一天我正吃冰激凌呢,因为档案馆关了,有个女人过来,她大概有五十岁,她要了个冰激凌,然后这哥们说,"我也忘了什么夫人了,杜普斯夫人,你还记得那天吧,德国人来的那天",然后她说,"我当然记得,他们把我丈夫吊在那根柱子上"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Naturally,the very day she undergoes the in-vitro fertilization procedure, she meets the "right guy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

but she has not had the best of luck in the romance department and, with her biological clock ticking away, she has decided the "right guy" may never show up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30