No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Okay, have to stop there--might add a word or two-- but on Thursday we turn, I'm afraid with a certain awkwardness; I wish there were an intervening weekend, to Freud and Peter Brooks.

好的，必须在此停下了，再加一两句-,到周四我们将会，恐怕有点尴尬;,我希望会有一个周末，留给弗洛伊德和彼得，布鲁克斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Then,on April twenty-fifth, General Taylor received word that a large Mexican force had crossed the border a few kilometers up the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

It's a long word that just means other chemistry that happens on the molecule after translation.

翻译后修饰意味着,在翻译之后对于产物分子的其他化学修饰

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Fire buffs are still around, but the word has taken on a wider meaning.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

So, by thinking about it, by thinking about these kinds of issues, we can see that the mind has some kind of handle on these perfect, well, we need a word.

所以,通过思考这个问题,通过思考以上那些问题,我们可以知道,心灵可以一定程度上理解完美,我需要一个词

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Then,on the morning of July sixteenth, Missus Greenhow wrote a nine-word message.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.

需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And so now I have a great time!" On the first day of South By Southwest 2010, word came of the death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

So, I'm going to ask you to read the afterword, " On a Book Entitled Lolita." When you read that, you'll notice that the word "throbs" comes back.

所以，我希望你们去读一读序言“,在那本叫Lolita的书上，当你们读的时候，你们对再看到悸动这个词。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选