Thus isolated, thus removed, the vision acquired an especially keen charm that made me race with all speed toward my lone gratification.

如此形影相吊，如此销魂，这景色生出,一种勾人心魄的诱惑力，促使我全速跑向,我孤独的尤物。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And so it's nice to just have reminders of that everywhere you're going

所以不管你到哪儿，都会有东西勾起你的回忆，那感觉很好。

洛克菲勒中心的时光 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

See gargantuan hooked fingers Pluck in supreme flesh To smutch supreme littleness.

看庞大的勾形的手指,拖拽那高尚之肉体,将那最微之卑劣也弄脏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选