Rihanna's disc opened in fourth place on the US chart, while Chris had to settle for a seventh-place debut.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And while it would be ridiculous for us to read the entire mask as the poet's own completely unfettered autobiographical fantasy, a Miltonic set of interests and a Miltonic set of anxieties charging and fueling this work.

虽然要我们读完整篇文章有点荒谬,因为诗人的自传幻想太无拘无束了，这个作品有弥尔顿式的嗜好,和弥尔顿式的焦虑控诉及刺激因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's as though we live life for a while, getting a feel for all the wonderful things life could offer us, and then a moment later, as it were, it's snatched away from us.

似乎我们活了一会，感受到了生命能提供给我们的所有美好的事物，然后片刻之后，又好像，被从我们身边夺走。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

While Washington praised Mr.Netanyahu's gesture as a step forward, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell acknowledged the plan falls short.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring its author.

他不是绅士，但神奇地他的小提琴声,能召唤出对Lolita的宠爱和同情,那让我们对这本书着迷，同时却在憎恨着作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"While passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us,let's be clear about what this moment demands, we are at war,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

If inequality is morally objectionable, then it's very likely we're going to think it's morally horrendous that there's this crucial inequality: some of us die a the age of 5 while others get to live to 90.

如果不平等会引起道德异议，那么很可能我们会认为这是道德沦丧,因为这里有种非常严重的不平等：,有些人在5岁就死了而有些人却活到90岁。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选