One side was dense honeysuckle. The other was open and slanted down to a telescoped view of the city. The white cloud was directly in front of them.

一边是浓密的金银花，另一边很开阔，倾斜的路面,向人们展示了整座城市的缩影，那朵白云在他们正前方。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Either you open a nice hole between yourself and the rest of your army, in which case somebody's going to get very badly killed and you're going to be on the run very soon, or you have to somehow communicate to the rest of the army, "Everybody come over this way," which will still leave that flank open to being flanked by the other side.

或者在你和自己的军队之间,形成一个缺口,这样有会造成惨重的伤亡,你很快会全军溃逃,或者你以某种方式和部队沟通,全都过来这边,这样仍会使一侧对敌人敞开,从而受到对方攻击

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选