He starts to just torture his mother with a thousand questions about everything in the world.

砸向了母亲,不断折磨她。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We can exaggerate the power of Peter the Great in this vast empire that's expanding south and already expanding toward Siberia and such distant places.

彼得大帝在自己幅员辽阔的帝国享有至高权力,这是怎么夸张都不过分的,他不断地向南边扩张,版图甚至已经触及到了,西伯利亚这样的边远地区

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So here in the G Minor Symphony we feel as--oh, it's so full of tension, angst,anxiety, perhaps passion, it's driving somewhere, and one of the things that's driving it is its accelerating rate of harmonic change.

在G小调交响曲里我们能感觉到，哦，音乐中充满了紧张，揪心，焦虑，甚至激情，这些感情正在向某个方向涌去，吸引它们的力量之一就是不断加速的和声变化率。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选