I think there is something useful about hearing the subject presented once orally.

我觉得亲自来这里,听一遍我讲的课是很有帮助的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If you could take your five year-old or eight year-old in to get a vaccine that was orally administered instead of a shot that's a much easier thing to do.

如果你带着五岁或者八岁的孩子,去口服而不是去注射疫苗,那将会轻松许多

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选