The reporters knew very well that exciting and horrifying stories sold newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The touching of the Lady's lip touches us in other ways as well though, at least in this lecture, because we remember that unfortunate, that horrifying image of the lip that Milton had noted in the commonplace book.

碰触女士的嘴唇也在其他方面感动了我们，至少在这一讲中，因为我们记得那不幸的，充满畏惧的嘴唇的形象,那是弥尔顿在笔记中提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Working in secret, they cross that line. The result is horrifying yet mesmerizing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09