Here I paused in my fiction to shield my eyes and stanch the arrow-straight tracks clawed down my cheek.

飞箭在我脸上笔直地犁出了一条伤口，我停止了幻想,遮住眼睛，赶忙去止血。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So this city is not a city in New England, it's a city in the Midwest, where everything's flat and the roads just go completely straight.

所以这不是在新英格兰的城市,它是美国中西部的城市,那里都是平坦而笔直的路

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Then it lands on your foot, because assuming the cannon is at zero height, the cannonball certainly comes out towards the enemy, but has no time of flight.

然后它就会落在你的脚边,因为假设大炮的高度为 0,炮弹笔直地出膛打向敌人,却没有时间飞行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选