"I do not want to," I sat down with him and said, "You do not have to tell me about your personal history, but when you finish writing that document...

VOA: special.2011.06.04

It's late for some personal reasons as well. Milton had been, as you know, anticipating writing this poem since he was at least nineteen years old.

也有一些个人原因，你们知道，弥尔顿至少在19岁的时候就想要写这样一首诗了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The member of the Democratic Party of Japan started writing a personal blog and began broadcasting a weekly Webcast called "Suzukan-TV."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.

如果我们现在好好思考一下南方的特点,也许首先,让我们想想所有关于南方的陈见,不难意识到,如果那么多人通过个人观察,写出的南方都大同小异,那么这些南方特点一定有其根源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选