His invasions at one time are turned back when they literally open the dykes and flood the French armies back.

他的入侵曾一度被击退,因为荷兰人,真的"开闸泄洪",大水把法军淹得够呛

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If we look back at that long, open-ended list of things that were good or bad, we'll find that mos of the things on that list are instrumentally good.

再看那个长长的没有结尾的,好的或坏的东西的名单，我们会发现上面很多东西,都是有好的利用价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选