Phan doesn't see the trend changing anytime soon.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Any genuinely new trend is a knight's move. I just remind you, in chess the knight doesn't move in a straight line.

所以，任何新趋势都是迂回前进，我只是提醒大家一下，在国际象棋中马是不走直线的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You can see that in all these countries real estate prices didn't show much trend until recently and now they all have real estate booms.

由图表中可见,这三个国家的,地产价格一直没有明显趋势,只是近年来才出现繁荣

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

23456789 All right, here I gave it a big number, 123456789. And again, I don't want to bore you, but you can see what's going on here with this trend.

我给出一个大数字，又一次，我并不想令你们感到枯燥，但你们可以自己看看会发生些什么,这儿有个有趣的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, let's take a look here at an example of an energy diagram for the hydrogen atom, and we can also look at a energy diagram for a multi-electron atom, and this is just a generic one here, so I haven't actually listed energy numbers, but I want you to see the trend.

所以让我们来看看,一个例子氢原子的能量图，我们也可看看一个,多电子原子的能量图，这是一个普通的图谱，我没有列出能量的数字，但是我想让你们看这个趋势。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选