A little later of course she, this nouvelle, this Lolita, my Lolita, was to eclipse completely her prototype.

当然片刻之后她，这个洛丽塔，我的洛丽塔，便要彻底遮蔽她天体的原色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Milton has his hero, Samson, bewailing the fact of his blindness: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon irrecoverably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day!"

弥尔顿描写到自己崇拜的英雄参孙悲叹自己失明：,黑暗，黑暗，黑暗，在正午的光辉中,无法改变的黑暗，黯然的没有一点希望“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One astronomer actually left Paris to go off and to observe an eclipse.

期间还有一位天文学家乘坐热气球离开巴黎,去观看月食

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选