The D.C.Commission on the Arts and Humanities has asked him to create large paintings on the walls of buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Somebody rose and asked him if he had considered putting the elements in alphabetical order. They were very cruel.

有人起来问他,是否考虑过将这些元素,按字母顺序排列，他们非常冷酷。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So my student called Bernard Sadow up and asked him about his invention and he said, "Yeah, I was thinking, why don't we have wheels on suitcases?

于是我的学生打电话给伯纳德？沙度,然后询问了他关于发明的事情，他说道，是啊，我当时在想，我们为什么不能在行李箱上安轮子呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better,thank God.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.

这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题，他找到弥尔顿，让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He asked Congress to give him everything he needed to win the war and bring peace to the area.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Interestingly, towards his death, I had the chance to meet him, And I asked him... He knew he was dying.

在他去世前，我曾经去拜访他，我问他。。。，他知道他就要离开人世。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Miller once said that even after he and Inge had been married almost forty years, people still asked him about Marilyn Monroe.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

In fact, he was knocked unconscious only for a short period and then he got up and his friends surrounded him and asked, "Are you okay?"

事实上，他只是短暂失去知觉,然后他起来了,他的朋友围过来问道，你还好吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She asked him about his home and his family.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Literary agent and friend, David Black says the role Feiler asked him to assume was a natural fit.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

And I asked him what philosophy has to say about his death, his immediate death.

我问他哲学将怎样解释,他的离世。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"We asked,for instance, how voters felt about some of his programs and again, they are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

And then I said--then I thought back on the Freud lecture and so I asked him, ?" "If you could marry anybody you want, who would it be?"

之后我又想到弗洛依德的理论,然后我就问他，“如果你谁都能娶，你会选择娶谁“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"He found himself in a beach community and thought, 'Well,I might as well try to learn to surf,'" "He asked me if I wanted to come out and learn with him.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And then, they have this very complicated back-and-forth about things that they remembered, or didn't, and they hashed these things over: Then Carlo asked Dean if he was honest and specifically if he was being honest with him in the bottom of his soul.

于是，他们有了这个十分复杂的,关于他们想得起来想不起来的事的来回选择，并且他们充分讨论了这些事情：,然后卡洛问迪恩他是否诚实，特别是他是否,从灵魂深处对他诚实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In his request to be relieved of duty, General Fonseka asked the president to allow him to keep a security detail, including trained combat soldiers, and a bullet proof vehicle, saying the defeated rebels are yet capable of trying to kill him.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

He is also lead author of the paper, Fast Profits: Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns During Ramadan. Reporter Cecily Hilleary asked him to explain the so-called Ramadan Effect. During the Holy Month, we find that on average, stock returns are almost nine times higher in predominantly Muslim countries than during other times of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05