The Language Teaching Program,for example, brings teachers of English as a foreign language to work at American colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

And so Richard is learning a grammar of race even while he tries to work out how to use language as a source of power in his family.

所以理查在学习语言的艺术,虽局限于种族,就是他在家里受尽磨难时也在学习语言的魔力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With a computer,recorder,and camera, this language activist can work toward creating a dictionary of the Ishir language.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

If you hope to make it with theory of what people are and how people work, you have to explain and talk about language.

如果你想要理解关于人类本质,及其行为模式的理论,就必须得探讨并解释语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His early work brought the Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, used to create Web pages.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

Linguists can work at different levels of abstraction with language.

根据不同层面的基本单位，语言学家有不同的研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Everything from basic language skills of agreement of subject and verb, use of commas and other punctuation, complete and incomplete sentences, so that we can move from basic writing/language skills to the more sophisticated skills that graduate students, upper level undergraduates and people in the work world use."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.

他是英文写作的大师，他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Making this life change is hard on all fishermen, but for the Vietnamese and Cambodians here, the language barrier is an added obstacle in trying to reach out to BP for work and compensation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.

如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We are going to determine how much food and other products of daily use are needed, whether an international crew is compatible, how people of different cultures, of different training can find common language and work on performing their tasks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

More speculatively, there has been some fairly recent work studying the genetic basis of language, looking at the genes that are directly responsible for the capacity to learn and use language.

更具体的来说,一些最新的语言遗传基础研究,探查了直接影响语言学习,及使用能力的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Take, for example, page 924 over onto 925 when he quotes from Levi-Strauss' introduction to the work of Marcel Mauss on the subject of the birth, event, or emergence of language.

例如，924页到925页，当他引用，列维，施特劳斯,关于马歇尔，莫斯的介绍,涉及马歇尔，莫斯所讨论的语言的诞生，发展和危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.

语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选