I speak in a figurative way about the relationship between the earth and the sky, and I believe that there's a sky god.

我用一种修辞法,来说天地关系，我相信有一个天神。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We see this in the fact that the gods are very often ; associated with natural powerful forces, right? The sky is a god; the fire is a god; fertility--a natural process--is a god.

这一点可以在很多例子中得到证明，就比如说,神灵通常是和自然力量联系在一起的，对吧？有天空之神;,有火焰之神，有丰收之神，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The sky was just a little lighter blue than his suit, clear and even with only one cloud in it, a large, blinding white one with curls and a beard." Notice that image of the cloud, the blinding white cloud.

天空比他身上蓝色的西装颜色更亮，更清朗，甚至,空中只有一朵白云，是大而亮白的螺旋状和,胡须状，注意这多云的图像，一朵亮白的云。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They seem to be reaching toward the sky there, but not reaching toward the sky as in the cupola of a Baroque church where you're supposed to see God at the top.

而且这些建筑看上去都高耸入云,不过不像巴洛克式教堂高耸的塔楼那样,往顶上看时,你应该会看到雕刻着的上帝

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And this is useful because if you're actually writing a program that's interactive or that you want to change overtime much like you would a game, hopefully, the game is not going to have the bad guys, for instance, always standing in the same place or the rocks or whatever it is falling from the sky in the same place 'cause it would very quickly become a very tedious game.

这是很有用的，因为如果,写一个交互的程序或者,希望每次游戏都不一样，我们希望，游戏中的坏人物，别老是站在同一个地方或者同一块石头上,或者从天空中同样的位置落下,因为这立刻会使游戏变得乏味。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Here that omniscient narrator, as when that narrator looks in to Haze's mind, offers you a reading of the sky and its separation from the minds of the characters that suggests, or makes you look for, kinds of structure.

在这里，万能的叙述者读解Haze的内心时，给了我们关于星空的注解,角色们迥然不同的想法,暗示了我们，或者说使得我们，去寻找一种结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选