"I'm at home,digging in the dirt, or doing something that is very close to the Earth, because that's where I know how to survive."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

That is the lowest point on the earth's land surface so this dramatic drop in just a very short geographical area.

这是地球陆地表面的最低点,这急剧下降是在很短的地理范围内。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and getting back to balancing the elements in our lives, very basically like Earth, water, fire.

回归生命中元素的平衡，基本上就是土、水、火。

瑜伽的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And my first very successful book was "The Good Earth."

VOA: special.2010.11.14

There is very little separation, even if there is a sense that the sky is impinging on the earth and not the other way around.

即便是有一种，天地相接的感觉,而不是其他的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"What we see that because the supply of the gold is depleting, that's why the cost of digging the gold out of the earth is very high."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

That made it very beautiful and there's no way in God's earth that we could replicate that to the Western system of musical notation.

那使得它十分美丽,我们却没有任何办法,用西方的乐谱方法,再现这样的音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"They were very connected to the earth. They studied the earth.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men."

人类的传宗接代如同落叶归根“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选