In eighteen seventy-seven, Edgar Degas came to her studio and asked her to join his group of artists who called themselves the Independents.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And somebody as a joke once asked her, "How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"

有个人开玩笑问她,"你在我们村住这么多年觉得怎么样"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I also want to give another layer to this understanding of O'Connor as a religious writer by looking at what she said in her correspondence to one of her readers who asked her some questions, and this is on the handout that I passed around.

我还想给大家另一层,理解这位宗教作家的方式,那就是去看她,回复一位读者问题的信件，这在我发给大家的材料上有。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I told her what I was doing and asked her what she was doing and told her howI thought about her always.

VOA: standard.other

It was in 1995, a secretary at IBM Corporation was asked to xerox some documents by her boss and the documents described a proposed takeover of Lotus Corporation.

那是在1995年,IBM的一个秘书,帮他老板复印一份文件,文件有关,IBM计划收购莲花公司的计划

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She was poor. But she never said 'no' to a hungry person who came to her farm and asked for food.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Welles asked her to play a lead part in a play he was directing and starring in.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

They asked her about camera techniques, and also about her private life.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

"My Mom said that I was going to break the record, and I asked her if she was the one running.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

And I am still a little bit in shock." Ostrom was also asked about what her research might say about how we deal with the growing problem of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Do you know that? We saw her on Monday,". "We asked her to stop it and she said she will think it over, but last night she stopped her hunger strike.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06