The word "raconteur" describes a person who is skillful at telling stories.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's this extraordinary insight that he gives us: we can only read one word at a time, we can only read one line at a time.

这是他告诉我们的非凡的洞察：,我们一次只能读一个词，或是一行。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At that moment, Jefferson created a new word - belittle.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

If you feel exposed without a text book, you really have to have a textbook, John actually I'm going to reuse that word, John, at least suggest it, on the course website.

如果你觉得没有教科书就缺乏安全感的话，那你真的需要一个了，其实我应该重新使用这个词儿，至少是建议，你能在课程网站上找到。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A doctor at centers as far as 150 kilometers away gives the final word to villagers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

For example, you are looking at a screen and for just a few milliseconds, a word appears.

比如你看着一个屏幕,在几毫秒内闪过一个词。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As the president was preparing to make his remarks at the White House, outrage was building over word a major American insurance company,AIG, was going ahead with millions of dollars in bonus payments to its executives.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Eikhenbaum in this culture will be using such a word advisedly, almost familiarly, but at the same time it's very interesting that the kind of science he's thinking about is not just any science.

艾肯鲍姆经常故意使用阶级斗争这个词，但有趣的是,他所声称的这种科学,并不只是任意一种普通的科学。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

U.S.officials say there was spontaneous applause at the meeting, at a New York hotel, when word arrived of Senate approval of the five-year Pakistan aid plan, which would triple civilian U.S.assistance to about Expected to win final approval in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

It's not just the religious instant of looking down at San Narciso; it's the religious sense of the capitalized Word that comes back a couple of times towards the end of the novel, the epileptic Word.

这还是在书的尾端;,出现了很多次的大写的“Word“,癫痫的“Word“,大写的“Word“指的是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

There is one exception. In the sixth century, I think it's around--imagine around 550 or something like that, the Greeks settle a single colony in the Delta of the Nile of Egypt at a place called Naucratis, and the root of that word is ship.

但有一个例外,在公元前六世纪,我想大概是,在公元前550年左右,希腊在埃及尼罗河三角洲,一个叫诺克拉提斯的地方建立了殖民地,Naucratis的意思就是船

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选