But I will tell my officers to let all the men who claim to own a horse or mule take the animals home with them to work their little farms."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?

这好像有点,本末倒置,或说未卜先知,因为你们怎能谈，我们怎能,先谈政治哲学，之后再来实作呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the grammatical sense, this word is the means or principal of predication whereby we say one thing is another thing: the mare is the female of the horse, for example.

从语法的角度来看，is这个词是,我们声明一个东西是另一个东西的方式或者？委托：,例如说，母马是马中的雌性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And she was very good at it. She also seemed to feel most safe when she was at home with her mother and father, or riding a horse on her family's land.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The clowns can make a handsome living without ever getting on a horse or bull.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25