The head of a string of pigs appeared, snout-up, over the ditch, and he had to screech to a stop and watch the rear of the last pig disappear shaking into the ditch on the other side.

这时候出现了一群猪，仰着鼻子走过水渠，他只好用一个急刹车,目送着最后一只猪大摇大摆地跨过水沟,消失在另一端。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If it could only ditch this electron, it could have the same electronic structure as neon.

如果它能失去这个电子，它就能和氖有一模一样的电子结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The longest ditch in the world, as it was called, 300-and-some-odd miles out to Buffalo.

当时它号称是世界最长的运河,长达三百多英里,又纽约州向布法罗城

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But you can't just ditch an electron.

但是你不能仅仅失去那个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选