So,in eighteen fifty-seven, Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

I will use that to post information, maybe once in a while send an e-mail to the whole class.

我会在那上面发布通知,可能隔一段时间就会给全班群发一封邮件

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

That file was electronic message, so suddenly in about 1971, we had e-mail. So an e-mail was pretty much the major use of the internet for the next 20 years.

那种文件就是电子消息，如此突然的，约在,1971年，我们有了电子邮件，电子邮件,基本上是此后20年互联网的主要运用形式。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

But in the nineteenth century they decided-- it just got really good at delivering mail.

不过在十19世纪，人们决定-,需要有专门的寄信服务。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Lawmakers in Congress wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

So I introduced Hirsch in that context, and now I want to go back to him a little bit and I want to work with two passages which I have sent you all in e-mail-form and which I have neglected to put on the board, but they're so short I don't think that will be necessary.

我在刚才那个问题中提到了赫施，现在我想再次讲一讲他,并分析下我用邮件发给你们的那两段话,我忘记把它们放到黑板上了，但它们很短，我想那样也没有必要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And once each month, mail would arrive in California after a slow trip by wagon from Saint Louis,Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

I should have also mentioned another really important information technology that developed in the nineteenth century was the Postal Service, although we had mail before then.

我应该也提到过,另一个产生于19世纪的,非常重要的信息技术,就是邮政服务，虽然我们在此之前就有信件往来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We explain its place in the history of the first stagecoaches that carried mail to the American West.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

If you own stock-- we don't get them in the mail anymore because you own it through some brokerage account and you get it on a website.

如果你有股票...,我们现在不通过挂号信了,因为人们都通过经纪人账户,在网站上购买股票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many people use E-mail,blogs,text messages and social Web sites like Facebook to keep in touch with their friends.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

This gets back--People are accustomed to getting dividend checks in the mail.

回到这里,人们习惯于,通过挂号信取得股利支票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Professor Prusinkiewicz is on sabbatical leave in Australia, but he sent us an e-mail suggesting a simple way to understand the process.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

You used to get checks in the mail; now you go on a website and you'll see that your dividends are credited to your account, but money is growing in your account as companies pay out dividends.

你过去习惯于通过挂号信取得支票,现在你登陆网站,就能看到股利自动分发到你的账户,公司支付了股利,帐户中的金额就会增加

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But she tells us in an e-mail: "A live conference feed was 100% better than a textbook.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

.. In 1799, it would cost so much to mail a letter-- I don't know exactly, something like $10 or $20 to mail a letter at today's rate-- and it would take a long time get there.

在1799年，寄封信需要花费-,我也不清楚具体的数字,大概相当于现在的10到20块钱-,而且还要花很久才能送达。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One day in eighteen seventy-nine while delivering mail Mister Cheval found a rock with a strange shape.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

A recent e-mail to us from Iran described an incident in an English class.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The mail arrived in Los Angeles twenty-four days after it left St.Louis.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

later,they were put together in a book, "The Butterfield Overland Mail."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

A communiqu sent to news agencies by e-mail says a multi-front offensive launched by the Ogaden National Liberation Front November 10th is still in progress.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He says the mail carrier remains an important figure in American communities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

The president wasshot in the chest... I picked up the mail.

VOA: standard.other

"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13