When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

当我看到白桦树弯下身子，向左，也向右,穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树，我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought.

我未曾到过火热的城门,也未曾在暖雨中作战,更未曾在没膝的盐沼里挥舞弯刀，挨着飞蝇的叮咬，苦战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I come across things that are bent; I come across things that are more straight, more and more straight.

我遇见过弯的东西,我碰到过更直的东西,越来越直的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They think that a stick refracted in the water is therefore a crooked stick.

诗人甚至不能理解折射，还认为从水面上看,水中的木棍儿显得弯曲是因为它就是弯的呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选