The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And,if you wish someone good night, you might say, "sleep tight -- don't let the bed bugs bite."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

It violates gravity, but six-month-olds aren't smart enough to know that a block just stuck over here is also surprising.

因为它违背了地心引力,但六个月大的婴儿还是不够聪明,他们没能发觉突出的木块也是令人惊奇的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Champ can also be found helping the local economy by appearing on souvenirs like T-shirts and coffee cups.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

.. We've done a lot-- I shouldn't say we haven't done anything-- but we can do a lot more.

我们做了很多-,我不该说我们什么都没做-,但是我们可以本做得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In July,the Defense Department e-mailed a "Don't Ask,Don't Tell" opinion survey to four hundred thousand service members.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

It turns out there's a new function strlen S-T-R-L-E-N that you probably have not used yet called strlen, S-T-R-L-E-N, programmers early on and still like to be succinct but communicates sufficiently what they mean.

结果这里有个新的函数,你可能没有使用过，叫做，早期的和现在的程序员喜欢简洁地,但是能充分的传达他们的意思。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I could see that the word w-a-t-e-r meant something wonderful and cool that flowed over her hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He was a poet who died before he could take up his career, and it's not unlikely that -- he wasn't married - that he was also a poet who died while he was still a virgin.

他是个事业还没起步就死了的诗人，并非不可能--金还没结婚,-他还是个未失童真就死了的诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

H- *H + e-> H-* And, clearly, we can't do both.

到一个电子生成*,但我们发现我们不能同时做到两个。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And he offers this advice once you have chosen the record you want to set: Train hard.Plan ahead.Be patient -- don't give up.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He said,"What is the use of being elected or re-elected, if you don't stand for something."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It's kind of--there must be something in cooking like that -use cornstarch or something, a filler -I don't know--just to make--give something body.

估计和烹饪的道理一样,用淀粉或某种填充物,我也不清楚,反正是进行塑形

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

(Tempations - "Ain't Too Proud to Beg") This program was written by Shelley Gollust.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Muscovy had already conquered the Volga basin in the 16th century, where the nomadic Tatars were, T-A-T-A-R-S.

6世纪时莫斯科公国已经征服了伏尔加盆地,游牧鞑靼民族住的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In the past,researchers believed that the only cause of C-T-E was a concussion.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

And of course,we don't have any good--as far as I can see-- we don't have any good reason to believe that crucial premise.

当然我们也没有很好的理由-,来相信这个重要前提。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There are some signs of conflict between T-rex and other large dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Is the reason people behave badly-- I don't know "Badly"--people choose Alpha in this game here, is it the fact that they can't communicate?

人们之所以取得糟糕的结果,我不敢说结果是不是真的不好,但人们选α是因为不能交流吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The traditional spelling is d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t but people often just spell it d-o-n-u-t.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

We don't refer--we have no reason to refer, - if we respect the autonomy of the poem as such, we don't refer-- we don't appeal to an authorial intention.

我们不能，我是说如果我们尊重，诗歌的意志自由的话，我们不能也没有理由-,为诗歌加上作者的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the creature you are imagining is only one-hundredth of T.Rex's size.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words all correct. Some foreign-born people wrote all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t, and used the letters O.K.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Because the government spends so little money on educating about--people about nutrition, especially compared to what the food industry spends, that it doesn't--it almost doesn't matter what this is.

这是由于政府在营养学教育上投入太少,远远不及食品行业对营养研究的投入,因此它似乎变得无关紧要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, what kind of--I don't want to give everything away-- but what kind of themes do we have in a course like this, what have I forgotten about? Oh me.

所以,什么样的,我想在还不想都说出来,我们这种课都有什么样的主题,我还有什么没说,我自己

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选