Your instructor tells you when you write your exam, "Don't just parrot the words of the authors you're studying.

你们的老师在你们考试答题时,会教导你们说，不要只模仿作者的用词。

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Now a five-page paper is very different from an eight-page paper if you're actually thinking about the words you choose and how you write it.

一篇五页的论文,如果你真正考究用词和写法,和一篇八页的论文是截然不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Note Frost's use of words like "something" and "perhaps."

注意他的用词如“一些““也许“

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Now we can debate what Jefferson got right or wrong there, or what's held up, but do note how he said both sides were either jealous or zealous of their own liberties.

现在我们讨论下他说的哪些对哪些不对,或者哪些还未有定论,但是请注意他提到双方对于自由态度是,用词的区别,一方珍惜一方热衷

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He writes "The nations in cold locations particularly in Europe are filled with spiritedness." There is that platonic word again Thumos thumos are filled with thumos " "but lacking in discursive thought " lacking in the deliberative element in other words.

生存在寒冷地区的民族,特别是在欧洲,都充满了意志“，等同柏拉图的用词,“Thumos，他们都充满了,但缺乏推论的思考能力“,即缺乏商议的要素。

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I really liked the tricks that Barth played with vocabulary.

学生：我非常喜欢巴斯用词的花招。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选