A sleep macho used to be "I only get forty-two minutes of sleep a night."

夸大数字的那些人,“我一晚只睡了42分钟”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

One year we actually had something like forty-two people signed up, and the course was much bigger, and we thought they all thought they were getting a free prize or something for signing up, there were so many of them.

有一年还真有,大概四十二个学生选了这课,那课堂大多了,当时我们觉得那些学生,是不是觉得选课能有奖励还是什么的,总之人特别多

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选