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

We'll discuss this in a second, but why don't we actually record what the game is, that we're playing first.

一会再开始分析,我们先记录一下这个游戏的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I want you to take rather than passive notes of writing down what is on the power point or every word that I say.

我不希望你们被动地记录,幻灯片上的内容或者我说的话。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Because of the climate and because of certain things growing in different parts of the world--and by the way, I see some of you kind of struggling to keep up with some of the things I'm doing on the slides, but I'm hoping to make broad points here, and again, the slides will be posted on the website so don't worry so much if you're not able to get everything down.

因为气候以及其他的一些原因,在世界不同地方种植,顺便说一句,我发现某些人很费力地,记录我幻灯片里的一些内容,但是我这里只想介绍大体框架,而且课件会上传到网络上,因此不要担心不能记下所有内容

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The goal of that was to take for a typical human, or for a typical - in the case of the human genome project maybe you're looking at fruit flies, you want to look at all the DNA in a fruit fly, but to look at the sequence of base pairs that makes up human DNA and write them all out; we'll talk about that later.

这个计划的目的是,建立一个有代表性人类的基因顺序,或者说是典型的人类基因组,就人类基因组计划来说,或许你在研究果蝇,你想观察果蝇内的所有DNA,而人类基因组计划是观察组成人类的,DNA的碱基对顺序并且将它们记录下来,我们不久之后会讨论这些内容

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选