- She said, "When I was dating my husband-- this is thirty years ago-- we were having a tough time.

她说，，“我和我老公拍拖那会儿-,那是30年前的事儿了-,有段时间关系很恶劣。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You've got to squeeze absolutely everything out of it, and so it was ideal from the standpoint of teaching and was, it seems to me, also wonderfully galvanizing intellectually because it really did make people think: "look how intricate what I thought was simple turns out to be."

你得完完全全把东西都挤干净了，正因如此，从教学本身的立场来看，这就是理想状态了，而在我看来，它能使人如醍醐灌顶,因为它真的在引导人们思考：,“我想象得很复杂的东西原来是这么简单的一回事儿啊！“

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