After a while, there were stretches where red gullies dropped off on either side of the road, and behind them there were patches of field buttoned together with 666 posts.

过了一会，有几段路,红色的排水沟在道路两旁延伸，后面是一块块的田地,一共有666根插在上面。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He admits that maybe he stretches the word "irony," but he tries to argue that the variety of effects that he focuses on in his essay have to do with irony.

他也承认“,也许他有些过度理解,但是他认为多样的效果来自于讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They might be a couple of inches, or most footers so-- and so no single fiber stretches all the way across the room.

它们可能就几英寸,或者最多几英尺-,所以没有一根纤维可以单独,横跨整间屋子。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.

它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅，当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I tie a spring to my back and I anchor it to the wall and see how much the spring stretches before the two forces balance.

我把弹簧一端系在背后,另一端固定在墙上,观察两个力平衡时弹簧的伸长量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And for some people the balance is positive, " for some people perhaps the balance is negative, " whether for their life as a whole " or for certain stretches of their lives."

对某些人，结果是正数，“对某些人结果是负数，“不管是他们的一生,“或者他们生命的一段时间“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选