"One of the lessons is about diarrhea. Diarrhea is about quality of education because it's relevant, because the child would learn in the school about diarrhea and will go tell the mother.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

I wanted to go back and leer at my strange Dickensian mother in the hash joint. I tingled all over from head to foot.

这时的我已经有些神志不清，真想回去看看,小饭馆里奇怪的幽灵一般的母亲。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The question is who gave permission for a colony to go in the mother city.

你问的是,在母邦是谁批准建立殖民地的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, it's not memorized as we think of it and you may have had music lessons along the way and your teacher and your mother said "Go memorize your piece." It's not memorized like that.

这完全不是想我们猜想的那样是靠死记硬背的,也许你上音乐课的时候,你的老师或和你妈妈会说,记下这一段,而这段音乐不是像那样靠死记硬背的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选