When Bill McKibben wrote "The End of Nature" 20 years ago, he thought that if he simply pointed out ecological problems, people would do something about them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

As I mentioned at the end of last lecture, what I want to do is offer us a set of thought experiments.

正如我在上一讲最后提到的，我想做一些思考实验。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

An end-stopped line is one in which the grammatical unit of sense stops precisely at the end of the line. The next line of verse picks up a different thought and the next one after that, and so on.

孤联诗句到了句尾语法和句意,都刚好停止，下一句,又表达一个新的意思，下一句又是，依次类推。

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"A year ago I thought the forecast of economists who were saying we'll be back into positive growth territory by the end of the year might be optimistic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

And I thought that really hurt the film, because it completely changed the tone sort of a bumpy and abrupt and the end In the scene with his aunt, she's overcome with despair.

我觉得它的出现毁了整部影片，因为它彻底改变了影片的基调,使结局显得唐突又自相矛盾,当镜头转到姨妈时，她正努力克服绝望的心情。

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