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

This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You've got to be very used to the notion of taking a vector in some oblique direction and writing it in terms of i and j.

你们应该已经很熟悉,倾斜的坐标系中矢量的概念,和用 i 和 j 来表示该矢量的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选