There was the wonder I felt when I saw a brace of mountain like, spotted, black-and-white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay.

我觉到很美妙,当我望见一大群如山般高大的，黑白斑点马压过土路,我觉到很快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It can make the issue black and white and can make things helpful.

这可以让事情清晰分明,可以让事情变得有益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A horse-drawing carriage in snowfalls that cause tires stick out of control with drivers gently toddles the ground and makes a nice pattern of black and white. That's how it used to be done, because he's a myth maker.

比如一辆马车在雪地上前行，但车轮松动,使马车夫不得不在雪地里慢条斯理地行进,这样的黑白画面塑造了很好的形象,这是他以前的做法，因为他是个创造神话的人，他说。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And here in the middle of the page a little ways down: My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock, jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat, a spring rain gift from me.

在这一页中间偏下的地方：,我的小情人穿着黑白条子的棉布裙，带着鲜艳的蓝色帽子，白袜子和亮皮鞋与她脖子上那条优美的,蓝宝石项链有些不协调,这是由于那场春雨我送给她的礼物。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选