In other words, she might try to make eyes at him or give him the eye.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

It's the understanding that he can make things happen in the world; he can defend himself against his father's punishment through the use of words.

自己的价值;,凭借唇齿,他可以与父亲周旋。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Because remember I said that, typically, when you hear a sentence you make --you manufacture in your mind gaps between the words.

你们记得我之前说过,通常来说,当你听到一个句子时,你会通过心理活动,在词与词之间创造出间隔

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Its words helped many men decide to make the move to America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The fact that I haven't seen this particular combination of words " isn't enough to make it interesting."

尽管我没见过这个特别的文字组合,但不足以让这个游戏变得有趣“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He found that the words he wrote often did not make sense.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ' Those sixteen words provide the framework for how we deal with religion in our public schools."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

In other words, doesn't historicism open the canon and indeed make the process of reading, the experience of reading, archival and omnivorous rather than canonical?

换言之，难道不是历史相对论破坏了标准,甚至让阅读的过程，阅读的经历，变得如档案般无所不包，而不是遵守规范？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

At the age of 12, she was given a painted scroll of an ancient man with the words, "Seek and the truth shall make you free."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

These prophets delivered their oracles at critical junctures in Israel's history, in the nation's history, so their words are only going to make sense to us if we first understand the particular historical crises that they are addressing.

这些告知发表预言，总是在一些关键的转折期,在以色列历史中，国家的历史中，因此他们的话只对我们有意义,如果我们首先懂得某些特别的历史性危机,先知们所提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And as his mandate, during his presidency, he had two aims: the first aim-- to make academic psychology more accessible, - in other words- bridge Ivory tower and mainstreet.

他任职期间的首要任务，是实现两个目标：,第一，让学院式心理学变得通俗，也就是说-,连接起象牙塔与普罗大众。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The poet Wallace Stevens puts it beautifully when he says that poetry should make the visible a little hard to see; in other words it should be a defamiliarizing of that which has become too familiar.

诗人华莱士，史蒂文斯在解释这点时说得很漂亮,他说，诗应给能见之物涂上一点朦胧的色彩，换句话说,诗应将熟悉的事物陌生化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

In other words, how is it that we feel the need to make things up?

换句话说，究竟是什么使我们想编故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选