He wanted to make English easier to understand by listeners of VOA broadcasts whose native language was not English.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

We need to know not only what are the primitives, but how do we make things meaningful in that language.

我们不仅需要知道什么是基本类型，还要知道我们在那种语言中,怎样使其变得有意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

Today,belittle is used, not only in the United States and England, but in other countries where the English language is spoken.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Soon we'll know. First of all, we'd better say, as is already clear from what we've been quoting, language is not quite Saussurian.

我们很快就会知道，首先，从引文中很容易看出，语言不是索绪尔式的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If they did, they often were not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing,and music.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Somehow when you're unnamed you're not part of language; you're still connected to the mother. And he actually had a female name. Remember he's called Christine for a while.

不管什么原因你没有名字就是没成为语言的一部分;,你还是与妈妈紧紧联系，事实上他会得到,一个女性的名字，记住他曾经一段时间被叫做克里斯汀那。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I did not know she was married!" Language expert Webb Garrison tells an interesting story about the expression.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

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

They spoke Russian. Not knowing the language, Bourke-White smiled in agreement at each man as he spoke.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And today nobody advocates a programming language that does not support it in some sort of way.

今天没有人会推荐一种,不支持面向对象编程的语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She says the new technology has not changed existing language but has greatly added to the vocabulary.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Most Jews in the first century would've used Greek as their first language,not Hebrew or even Aramaic.

主后第一世纪大多数犹太人都把希腊语当作第一语言,而不是希伯来语或阿拉米语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But,while versions of the new language are being used, standards have not been agreed upon.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

You can tell lies in language you may not understand the meaning of the words you used.

你可以用语言来说谎,也许你甚至不懂,你所用的词的含义。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

American lawmakers said the language of the aid package could not be changed.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

His foul language is so debased that women are advised not to stay long in his presence.

他的粗话是如此下流,以至于妇女们最好不要跟他就待。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So,it is probably not the safest secret language for those really private talks.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

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

Pig Latin is not the only coded language that children use.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

That we share not just the capacity for language in the way a linguist might assert, but that we share a certain common moral language.

我们不只共享语言能力,如同语言学家所主张，更共享,一种特定的共同道德语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And older children and children who live in homes where their primary language is not English, and also children who complete all their homework, are less likely to be bullies."

VOA: special.2010.05.06

You expect me not to use foul language.

你们期待我不要说粗话。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Yet,he did not record in any language other than English.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

especially if it's a language that's not like your own, like Russian is very different from English,

尤其是当这门外语和你的母语相差很大，例如，俄罗斯语和英语的差距就很大。

想学会4种语言 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He did not like the idea of sign language.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

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

You might ask your brother, "Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say,Okay,I will. Still,language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

We do not have a language for that, or a set of activities for that.

我们没有共同的语言，也没有一系列的活动来做这件事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This coda suggests something like a victory over all of those worries of unpreparedness as the worried rhetoric of "not yet there" gives way to a much more confident language of present completion, the "now."

这个终结暗示着,对所有的尚未准备好的忧虑的完全克服,一种对现在已经完成的事业的,自信和满足“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选