"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选