Some word experts say the expression to frame someone comes from the way wood must be fitted closely around a painting or photograph to frame it.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

The driver's expression and his hand stayed exactly the way they were, as if he didn't hear very well.

就像是没怎么听见似的,那个司机的表情和手几乎一动不动，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Supplementarity is a way of understanding the simultaneously linear and ever proliferating, ever self-complicating nature of verbal expression.

增补性是口头表达的同时线性,不断增加，自我复制,的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And we hope that they will be given the opportunity to do so in a peaceful way that respects the right of expression.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29