On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I recently saw "Iron Man II". I thought it was great.

我最近看了《钢铁侠II》。我觉得很不错。

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And after the war that policeman directed traffic at the market every Saturday, and the widow walked by and saw this man, knowing he had denounced her husband who had been taken away and killed.

战后那个警察,每周六在市场指挥交通,那个寡妇每次走过都能看见这人,知道是他揭发了他丈夫,然后被抓走遇害

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Crevecoeur made the North the site of the true essence of what he saw as this new American man being born in America, not in the South.

克雷夫科尔把北方描述成了,真正美国人的发源地,而不是南方

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