One side was dense honeysuckle. The other was open and slanted down to a telescoped view of the city. The white cloud was directly in front of them.

一边是浓密的金银花，另一边很开阔，倾斜的路面,向人们展示了整座城市的缩影，那朵白云在他们正前方。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They served him on gold plates with gold silverware, and he had huge ponds stocked with not only freshwater fish but saltwater fish.

因为子爵用金盘子及金银器皿来款待他,在他的城堡外面有一个巨大的池塘,里面除了河鱼,甚至还有海鱼

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And isn't that clear already from their colors, the material that they're made of Gold and silver, these colors marked them as fashioned, precious objects, inorganic, and in all these ways beyond time and nature, growth or decay.

从它们的颜色上很容易知道，制作它们的材料,金银说明它们是,特制的珍贵的物件，非自然生长的，这些都是超越时间自然,不会生长或衰亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Another thing that is interesting is that when you look at the burials of Greeks in the post-Mycenaean period, in the Dark Ages, there's nothing resembling those grand tombs and the wealth that's buried in them for the dead.

还有件很有趣的事,就是在黑暗时代迈锡尼后期,君主的陵墓中没有与其身份相称的陪葬品,没有为来生准备的金银财宝

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选