The two men ate alone, then they sat in the living room and read.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

what would it mean to read this letter out loud in a community, not alone in your dorm room,or just by yourself,in the library?

为什么书信要在人群中大声朗读，而不是在寝室里，图书馆里一人看？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I mean Think about it: how many people outside this room of course ? have read the last twelve issues of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology?

想想看，这间教室之外有多少人,读过最近12期《个性与社会心理学》杂志？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

After eating,they would sit in the living room and read.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Or one of my favorite examples, you could be sitting in your-- you read this sort of thing in the newspaper periodically-- you could be sitting in your living room when suddenly an airplane crashes into your house, killing you.

或者像我最喜欢用的一个例子那样，你可能坐在你-,你按时读报纸之类的东西-,你可能正坐在你家起居室里,这时突然有架飞机撞进了你家，杀死了你。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I can read every mind in this room.

VOA: standard.other

Highly educated people, a lot of you probably care a lot about food, think about labels, read them and things like that, not one person out of the 300-350 people in this room guessed correctly within ten percent margin of error.

你们受过高等教育,注意饮食健康,关注食品标签,等等,在10%的误差幅度下,在300-350个人中,没有一个人估计正确

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选