He says the public has a right to be angry about the latest tale of abuse: the decision by insurance giant AIG to hand out big bonuses to executives, even though taxpayer dollars are keeping the company afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

I don't know how many of you have read Tale of Two Cities.

我不知道你们中多少人读过双城记。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He occupies in this passage every subject position of the fairy tale: the nurse, the hounds and the king.

他在这段中加入了童话的要素：,如保护者，猎犬和国王。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

So, in other words, if we apply some of the storyline 4 5 6 from the previous tale, if s1 happens to be 4, 5, s2 4 5 6 you're just asking the question is 4, 5, 6 equals equals to 1, 2, 3?

换句话说，如果我们运用之前的一些情节,如果s1正好为，正好为1，2，3，6，and，s2，happens，to，be，1，，2，，3，你就会问：,等于1，2，3吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.

但事实上，我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语，一个“童话“故事，普鲁斯特是一个同性恋，他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋，但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选