My unwillingness to discuss them isn't a matter of my judgment that they're unimportant, just trying to keep at least roughly on track.

我不想讨论这些问题不是因为,我觉得它们不重要的，而是想尽量不要跑题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But, from this moment forth, cell phone goes off, you're out. You leave the room, OK? And, Lord help you if a cell phone goes off during an exam because those things have text messaging capabilities.

但是，从这一刻开始，手机响的话，你们就出去，你们就离开教室，好吗，上帝保佑你的手机不要在考试期间响起,因为它们有发短信的功能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And yet, it's also important for reading Pound and for reading Eliot and for reading Moore, who sound the way they do partly because they make a point of not writing pentameter, the meter that Frost often, but not always, chooses.

也对于阅读庞德和,艾略特，莫尔的诗歌很重要，他们听起来是做到了一部分,因为它们提议不要写五音部格诗，这种形式弗罗斯特很常用，但不是总用到。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选