It wasn't easy, but we slowly rebuilt those neighborhoods one block at a time, and in the process I received the best education I ever had."

VOA: special.2009.01.12

It brought about fundamental alterations, slowly, in ways sometimes people didn't even know it's happening; fundamental alterations in aspirations, in habits, in activities, in conceptions and definitions of work, and leisure.

带来基本的,缓慢的改变,以一种人们通常无法觉察到的方式,这样根本的改变的有愿望,习惯,行动,观念,还有,对工作,闲暇的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I can change everything overnight; it does happen. I put that in for a reason because sometimes some of you have not taken a physics course and you don't know how to do well in physics and slowly you catch on and by the time it's Final exam you crack the code; you know how to do well.

我能一夜之间扭转乾坤,确实有过这样的例子,我这样做是因为,有时你们中有人可能以前没上过物理课,不知道怎样学好物理,但慢慢地你赶了上来,到期末考试的时候,你忽然灵光一闪,考起试来得心应手

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选