They were looking down into a lowered place, where something white was lying, squirming a little, in a box lined with black cloth.

他们在往低处看,在一个围着黑布的箱子里，好像有什么白色的东西躺在里面，微微地蠕动，在很短的时间内。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometimes when correspondence is saved you run into these kinds of problems, so we have to guess a little bit at what she was looking at.

有时即使资料的确存在,可找不到麻烦就来了，因而，我只能去猜测她的大意了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The question was whether we were looking to take more short positions as the economy appears to be moving into recession and I guess the second part of the question was how do you remain bullish in this kind of environment.

问题是,在经济表现出走向衰退时,我们是否会做更多空头,我想这个问题的另一面就是,在那种情况下如何保持市场信心

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选