The time they went with his family to Ocean City; the erotic fantasies he used to have about her.

他俩跟他一家子去欧欣城的往事;,他当时对她所怀着的想入非非的欲念。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It isn't the Red Sea. That's a mistranslation that occurred very very early on, so it's led to the notion that they were at the Gulf of Aqaba or somewhere near the actual big ocean water.

并不是红海，这个错误的翻译很早以前就存在了,让人们以为是在亚喀巴湾,或者是接近真正意义的大洋的什么地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is how this logic goes -- we are all familiar with this: our body remains to molder in the earth or welter in the ocean , but our incorporeal spirit rises to heaven where it can enjoy an ethereal, a bodiless, world of eternity.

就是这种逻辑--我们都熟悉这个：,我们的肉体在地下或是海底归于腐朽,但灵魂却会升入天堂,在那里享受无形的永生。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's an angler fish at the bottom of the ocean that has a rod sticking up from the top of its head with a lure to capture other fish to fool them in thinking that this is something edible and then to themselves be devoured.

在深海中生活着琵琶鱼,这种鱼的头顶会长出鱼竿状的长刺,用于引诱和捕获其他鱼类,让它们误认为那是食物,然后它们自己就被吃掉了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选