We run a tight rope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I will tell you that a good programmer, at least in my mind, may actually go back and modify the pseudo code as they realize they're missing things, but it's easier to do that when you're looking at a simple set of steps, than when you're in the middle of a pile of code.

至少我认为是这样的，如果他们发现遗漏了,一些步骤的话会,回过头去修改伪代码,但这当你面对一些大致的步骤时,这个过程就会比,面对一堆代码要简单的多。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There is a kind of drum beat of thematic material as these scenes pile up.

剧情在不断变换,的场景下不断上演。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There was a pile of bodies next to that. Just to my left, we're passing another area where a number of bodies have been piled, many of them have just been cast aside, some of them are covered in sheets of plastic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

John trapped a lot of animals and early March, his pile of animals' skins was almost as tall as he was.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Whoa, man! You just ran through a big pile of dog shit!

VOA: standard.other