When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometime it will just stop in the middle of a tunnel for however long.

有时候，地铁会久久地停在隧道的中间。

纽约的交通手段 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When the body is in stress, we have various unusual stimulations of the visual sections of the brain, and perhaps that explains the white light or the feeling of compression in the tunnel.

身体受压时,我们收到对大脑视觉区域,各种不同寻常的的刺激,也许这可以解释白光,或者在隧道里压抑的感觉

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's known to Americans who have visited, there are many, but others because that's the Ritz Hotel where what's-her-name, Princess Diana left ten years ago now and never made it, unfortunately for her, out of the Pont d'Alma, the tunnel.

去过巴黎的美国人都知道那个地方,很多人知道旺多姆广场是因为丽兹酒店,十年前逝世的黛安娜王妃曾下榻的酒店,真是不幸,她在穿过蓬德阿尔马隧道时出了意外

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I was just finding very tunnel vision-like, the smallest elements at that moment in time which means I don't know anything about the other elements other than they are not the smallest and so no matter what with Selection Sort I had to repeat this again and again and again and if you do out the math it's roughly N squared steps in the worst case as well.

我只有一个狭窄的视野，只知道某时刻的最小元素,就意味着我并不知道其他元素的任何情况,只知道它们不是最小的,所以不管怎样，在选择排序中,我就得一遍一遍地重复选择过程,在最坏情况下,大概需要N的平方次比较。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选