"If you say,just because I'm using abbreviated forms, as I do,and change my punctuation, as I do,when I'm sending email, that it's affecting the rest of my written language, that,I'm afraid,simply doesn't happen,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

By the way, in what I'm saying, I oversimplify by supposing that the basic unit of language is a word.

因为我想说的是，我们现在是把语言的基本单位简单化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They've done some research. I'm not exactly sure if you can officially learn language from watching movies,

他们做了些研究。我不确定从官方的角度来讲，你是不是能够边看电影边学英语，

英语学习技巧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, I'm arguing that the saturation of these speeches with signs of words, language, speaking, words, books, is just the dilemma of the character.

换言之，我认为这些演讲之所以会充斥着,字词，语言，言论和书籍，其实只是一种进退维谷的困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Pseudo code. Now, you're all linguistic majors, pseudo means false, this sounds like code that ain't going to run, and that's not the intent of the term. When I say pseudo code, what I mean is, I'm going to write a description of the steps, but not in a particular programming language.

伪代码，基于你们都是学语言的，伪代码意味着不正确,这听起来就像是没法运行的代码,这可不是我们学这个的目的，当我说到伪代码的时候,我的意思是要对步骤进行一个描述,而不是某种特定的编程语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Okay, I'm an English teacher, but I'm in English Literature, more than English as a language.

我是一名英语教师，但是我教英语文学，多于英语语言的教学。

在公园相遇的老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So I'm using the same kind of tricky language that we'd used before, not to trick you, but so that you're not tricked in the future.

我这次用了和以前一样,迷惑性的语言，不是为了迷惑你们，而是,让你们以后不会被迷惑。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So right now I'm, we're just, uh, sort of learning the basics of the language.

所以现在我们正在学习日语的基础课程。

最喜欢的一门课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

My first language is actually Spanish. I'm from Puerto Rico.

我的第一语言其实是西班牙语。我来自波多黎各。

必须掌握两门语言 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

and then I'm using the language every day.

然后我会每天使用那种语言。

有这样的困难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When I'm talking about language I'm meaning systems like English and Dutch and Warlpiri and Italian and Turkish and Urdu and what we've seen and heard right now in class in the demonstration that preceded the formal lecture.

当我谈到语言时,我指的是诸如英语,荷兰语,沃皮利语,意大利语,土耳其语,乌尔都语这样的语言系统,以及我们在正式上课之前的课堂演示中,所看到和听到的语言系统

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选