We cannot say writing came into being belatedly with respect to speech in order to reproduce, imitate, or transcribe speech.

我们不能说书写比演讲产生得更晚,是为了复制，模仿，或者是记录下演讲的内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Would anybody volunteer to say a sentence, non obscene, non derogatory, that has never been spoken before on earth, ever?

有没有人自愿说个句子,不能是下流的,不敬的,得是世上从未有人说过的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

By Spring Break he'd gotten sufficiently sick that his doctor basically said, "You can't continue in school anymore.

春假的时候，他病得十分严重,他的医生直截了当地说，“你不能再上学了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So your TA might take a minute, so be patient with them if they see your structure and they say oh, no, no, no, no that's wrong, that's terrible, and they don't immediately know why.

因此助教可能需要一点时间，如果他们看到你画的路易斯结构以后说,噢，不，不，不，不，这是错的，错得离谱，而他们却不能立刻说出错在哪。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Let's go the other direction. And yes, I guess I'd better say s not 2, or we're going to get an error here. Again, in twenty-three checks.

这里我得说不能是2，否则要报错了，再一次，调用了23次,在这个例子里，它从尾部开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You cannot say, "I will look it up."

你不能说 "我得查查"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选