If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

So when we ask, you remember last lecture I was talking about how to be somebody here lecturing to you, philosophy on Tuesday.

所以，你们记得上节课,我讨论过要如何给你们讲课的,上周二哲学课的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So "I was" will be used to talk about anything that you're referring to that's behind you.

所以，“I was” 会被用来谈论那些你曾经做过的事情。

I was 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

I remember reading a--I like to browse among old books -I was reading a nineteenth century book about how to be a banker.

我比较喜欢翻翻旧书,我记得读过一本19世纪的老书,讲如何成为一名银行家

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She wanted to be fully educated about the art collection she was starting to build.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

That was not an uncommon way to talk about someone who was supposed to be great.

用这种办法体现一个人的伟大,并不少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

At the funeral ceremony, former Texas Governor Ann Richards said: "There was simply something about her that made you proud to be part of the country that produced her."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

I mean to be talking about a single thing that was extended through time.

我是说这个东西,贯穿时间的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He adds,concerns about the war here need to be addressed if public trust in British politics was to be restored.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

This is going to be the attacker, this is Hannibal, and this is going to be the defender, and I've forgotten which general was defending and someone's about to tell me that.

这个是入侵者,即汉尼拔将军,这个是防守者,我忘了哪位将军是防守者,最好有人来告诉我

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

After spending six years practicing psychiatry for the U.S.military in both Washington and Texas, he was about to be deployed to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But one that I was very interested in was biology, and the reason was we did a lot of cool labs in high school, I loved doing the dissections -- it was very interesting to me to think about how different organs worked, how the heart could be a pump, how the lungs worked.

但当时我很喜欢生物学，因为我高中做了很多很酷的生物实验,我很喜欢解剖-,我觉得了解不同器官,怎么工作很有趣,像心脏怎么泵血。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Clinton was not specific about diplomatic action that might be taken in the event of a launch, other than to say it would not go unnoticed and would have consequences.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The first thing I want to be sure was all students understand about the mechanics of the course and the best way to learn about that was to read very carefully the paragraphs at the bottom.

首先我想确认,大家都能明白这门课的授课形式,大家最好都去仔细阅读,刚发下去的课程大纲,请看这一页的底部。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选