One spring night, the couple was asleep when a broad ribbon of white light slid across the old woman's pillow.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Whatever he is called, he is still the same short,fat, jolly old man with a long beard, wearing a red suit with white fur.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Gone is the popular image of Charles Darwin as an old man with a long,white beard.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The program is ten years old. And it has received a lot of recognition, including an award in two thousand six from the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.03