Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

In the diner, in the apartment: all you do in the apartment is move from one room to another.

在吃晚餐的地方，在房间里：,你在房间里的动作就是在各个房间里走动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It takes place in small rooms. If you begin to think about it, you can almost see the set changes: in the diner, on the train station. That's about the most open place, on the train platform. That's about the most open place we see.

在很小的空间里发生，如果你们开始思考它，你们几乎能看到场景的改变，晚饭，在火车站，那算是最室外了，在火车的月台上，那也算是最室外了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The diner was moved by truck from a small town in New York to a low income neighborhood in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Fidel Garcia is the owner of Capital Pilates and Patrick Carl is co-owner of the Capital City Diner.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

We found the diner on E-bay. We live in the neighborhood and there's no place for breakfast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Financing is also given to restaurants like the Capital City Diner, which was constructed in the 1940s.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Capital City Diner opened two months ago, and like Garcia's pilates studio, business is booming.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Eat at the diner every night?Steak and cobbler? Dad, that's you. That's not me.

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