It attacks the brain's nerve cells, robs memory and impairs thinking and language skills.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But you know, I understand it's a challenge when you're coming from a language that doesn't have any concept of an article.

但是，我能够理解当你的母语没有冠词的概念时，它将是一个挑战。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He also loved words and writing. The museum has special proof of Porter's love of language -- his dictionary.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

There's other disorders of language such as receptive aphasia where the person could speak very fluently but the words don't make any sense and they can't understand anybody else.

还有其他的语言障碍,诸如,接收性失语症,患有这种病的病人,语言流畅,但所讲话语没有任何意义,而他们也无法理解别人的话语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His works include observations about current political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city's tradesmen and other professionals.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

It's a piece of language but it also belongs to other sorts of semiotic systems as we'll immediately see.

它是一种语言,它属于一个特殊的语义系统,下面我来解释一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

All day Miss Sullivan kept touching Helen's hand, spelling words that gave Helen a language.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And it's this rhetoric of anticipation, this language of looking forward, that structures all of Milton's own narratives about his own literary career.

正是这种预期修辞学，这种期待的文字，构建了所有弥尔顿的自述,和他自己的文学事业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Romeo and Juliet" shows how William Shakespeare's plays shine with extraordinarily rich and imaginative language.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

The land is described as a land where milk and honey flow, and if only you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God. This is the kind of language that's used here, and not so much in the other books.

应许之地被描述为流奶与密的地方，并且只要,你遵从了耶和华你神这种语言,仅仅被用在这里，而不是在其它几书中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is called "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language."

VOA: special.2010.07.18

See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

On it there is little language and it's obvious it's talking about some kind of a town council.

它的上面只残存了一些只言片语,但从中仍能清晰地辨认出,它记载着某种城镇议会

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Shakespeare's plays have been translated into every major language in the world.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

And it's not just the accent of "Ain," "Quatre-vain" Or "Enfain" Instead of enfin-- it's a whole language.

而且不光是那种"俺"的口音,"把十"或者"嗨子"而不是孩子,完全是另一种语言

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

She says their language and culture influenced Dickinson's life and her writing.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Those areas that are most eager to get to the content say they may have difficulty in using it because it's not in their language or might not make sense within their culture.

那些渴望得到这些信息的地区,很可能在使用这些信息时遇到困难,因为这些信息用的不是他们的语言,或者在他们的文化里这些信息不成立。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

So, he's exotic just from the very beginning, and it's an exotic language.

所以说，他从一开始就有异域风格，而且是很异域风的语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

Machiavelli would no doubt be taken up against some board of offense today for using such a term ? but that's his language. What can I say?

马基雅维利若是在当今时代说出这样的话,一定会遭受猛烈抨击,但那就是他的语言风格，我能说什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Pro-Russian forces also resent Mr.Yushchenko's campaign to teach the Ukrainian language to schoolchildren in Russian-speaking regions of the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.

什么是全音符,这些符号又都是什么呢,这些就是简单代表了持续时间,因此我们这里有一套符号语言,来代表横轴,就是时值的那条轴

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Consideration of a minority patient's language, customs and beliefs by virtue of their heritage is a concept known as cultural competency.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

But it's amazing to read the letters and the language of slave traders when they write to each other, the complacency, the mixture of just pure racism on the one hand and just business language on the other.

当你阅读到那些奴隶商们,在往来的书信中所使用的言辞时,会令你非常震惊的,一面是混合在纯粹的种族歧视中的自满,另一面是那种完全商业化的措辞

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He sang the song at the rally and a few ZANU-PF members struggled to sing along in Malema's Zulu home language.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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