Do you like it or would you prefer something shorter? A shorter name would be more convenient on a sign.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Their relationship is necessary but, as we'll see in a minute, arbitrary, and each sign is like that.

这种关系十分必要，但是它又有任意性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And that's where like, in Phase One, you can only sign up for 10 units worth of classes.

比如说，在第一阶段，你只能报10个学分的课程。

关于授课系统 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

It's not a full-blown language like american sign-language or langue des signes quebecoise but it's a language nonetheless, with words and syntax and phonology.

这种语言并不像美国手语,或加拿大魁北克手语那样成熟,尽管如此,这种语言依然拥有词,语法和语音

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Jupiter's sign looked much like the printed number "four."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

People are like "sign me up, I want some of that."

人们都喊着“让我加入吧，我想试试“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He did not like the idea of sign language.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

and he had his hands like this but he didn't have a sign. He was holding it as if he had a sign

他把手伸出，但他没有举牌子。他抬着手仿佛举着牌子一样，

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But if you need a slave representing your business, and you live in Rome and you need somebody in Ostia, the port city of Rome, to be able to be there and watch your imports and your exports of your business, you need someone who can sign contracts, who can lend money, who can borrow money, who can do things like that.

如果你需要一名奴隶代理你的生意，如果你住在罗马，需要有人，在罗马奥斯蒂亚港口,照看你的进出口生意，就得要能签合同，可以放债贷款，及其他类似事务的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And in Phase 2, you can sign up for however many more that's like, actually permitted.

在第二阶段，你可以报允许范围内的更多的课程。

关于授课系统 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Or even just funny things, like if somebody put like "Hammertime" on a stop sign.

或者，有趣的是，好像有人把“哈姆时间”（美国真人秀）画在停车标志牌上。

街头艺术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You could use a sign language thing for "Drink" that looks sort of like the act of drinking but you can't use a sign language word for "Country" that looks like a country, or for "Idea" that looks like an idea.

你可以用看起来像喝这个动作的手语,来表示"喝",但你无法用看起来像国家的手语,来表示"国家",或用看起来像想法的手语来表示"想法"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, what I want to do is, I want to discuss the scientific notion of language, at first restricting myself to systems like English and Dutch and American sign language and Navajo and so on.

因此,我想做的是,我想来谈谈语言的科学定义,首先我会将自己限定在,诸如英语,荷兰语,美国手语,或迪瓦霍语等语言系统之下

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选