Here Gregory Anderson talks about why languages are important: "Language is in many ways, a window to the mind.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Through this process he becomes addicted to alcohol at a very young age, but at the same time he learns something about language.

因此，他在培养出酒瘾的同时，练就了驾驭语言的一些能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As I read, pay attention to the degree to which he's constantly talking about language and about the way in which he himself is inserted into language.

听了我读的这段话，请注意,他不断说到语言,以及他自己对语言研究和注意的程度。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Join us as we learn about the cultural value of language and why endangered languages must be protected.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Why is it worth it to him to take that risk? What's he trying to teach us about narrative and about language that makes it worth this risk?

为什么这值得他承担如此风险呢，关于叙述文章,和让这些风险值得语言，巴斯到底想教会我们什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I did not know she was married!" Language expert Webb Garrison tells an interesting story about the expression.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

We'll talk about what languages share, we'll talk about how language develops, and we'll talk about language and communication in nonhumans.

我们将会谈及各种语言的共性,谈及语言的发展,以及非人类的语言交流

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Yuqi Cao wants to know about the strange language called Pig Latin, or Igpay Atinlay in Pig Latin.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

And it's this rhetoric of anticipation, this language of looking forward, that structures all of Milton's own narratives about his own literary career.

正是这种预期修辞学，这种期待的文字，构建了所有弥尔顿的自述,和他自己的文学事业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

His works include observations about current political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city's tradesmen and other professionals.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Second thing we want to talk about very briefly as we go along is the semantics of the language.

我们要说的第二点,是语言的语义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is said that Mary memorized a complete book about the Latin language in three days.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.

霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Ko Maw Gyi is an English language teacher who wants to know about the store Wal-Mart.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

She doesn't know any language, She doesn't know what I would be talking about by the nature of love.

它没有语言，它不知道我会谈论,爱的天性。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Language expert Barry Popik studied the question and wrote about it on his Web site.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

What's interesting about the Song of the Sea, this poetic fragment in Exodus 15, is that here the Hebrews adopt the language of Canaanite myth and apply it to Yahweh.

关于海之歌那首出现在《出埃及记》15中的残诗,有趣的是，犹太人改编了迦南人的神话,套用在耶和华的身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.

所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And answer a question about the strange secret language called Pig Latin .

VOA: special.2009.12.04

A boat, about, a dress, a coat: these are all simple iambic phrases that you hear in our language all the time.

一艘船，关于，一条裙子，一件外套：,这些都是简单的抑扬格的词组,你在我们的语言中会经常听到。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You might ask your brother, "Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say,Okay,I will. Still,language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

We're talking about a culture when we're talking about the Greeks, which is most strikingly signified by the language that is spoken.

当我们谈论希腊人时我们是谈论希腊文化,是严格以所使用的语言为主要标志的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Analysts say that Iran was particularly incensed about the new British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian language TV station that was started early this year.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

There's nothing upsetting or improper about the language of the soul, even on the physicalist point of view.

谈论灵魂并不是什么令人沮丧或不得体的事情,即使是从物理主义的角度来看

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

ICANN says about half the Internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language, adding the change will affect billions of potential users.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

So C or the compiler's for C are kind of dumb, by definition of the language years ago, whereby, they only know about what they've already seen.

所以C或者C的编译器是有点愚蠢的，根据多年前这个语言的定义，凭借那个，他们只知道,他们所看到的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They don't understand the language, but there is something about Bollywood films.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Well, some things are obvious about language so here are some; here are the questions we will ask.

有些关于语言的知识非常明显,这是我们将会提到的的一些问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选