"And I said to him that those were two easy promises to make because those two things I could not change."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

And I said to him, "Yes. That's right."

我对他说“是的，没错“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

and I had to insult him in Shakespearean English. I said,

而且我不得不用莎士比亚英语侮辱他。我说的是，

记忆犹新的作品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I said to him a year ago, Mr.President your numbers are going to be considerably worse a year from now than they are today because you can not govern in an economy like this without great disaffection,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

" And I said to him, "Why?"

我问“为什么“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Now, as I said, this is Socrates' last day on earth and you'd expect him to be pretty bummed.

我已经说过了,这是苏格拉底在人世的最后一天,你们肯定以为他很难过

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Santa Ana said he would agree to the sale, if the United States would help him return to power.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

This limo driver told me this yesterday; he said it's going to cost him five hundred million pounds or something like that to do this.

那个司机昨天是这么跟我说的,他说他得花五亿英镑,才能买到

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

He's making his own decision as you said and no woman is going to tell him to eat quiche or tofu and that you may have missed it but in the song there we'll show this later in class again but in the song they say that 'I won't eat quiche anymore' and 'goodbye to tofu' and things like that.

正如你所说,他是在做出自己的决定,没有女人会要求他们吃什锦蛋饼或是豆腐,你们可能没注意到但是背景音乐中有提及,等下我会再放一次,但背景乐中有'我再也不吃什锦蛋饼了',永别豆腐,之类的歌词

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Brown said God meant for him to begin this rebellion by invading Virginia with a military force he already was organizing.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Indeed, in addition to finding him very difficult you've probably said, "Why does he have to write like that?" In other words, "Yeah, okay. He's difficult, but isn't he making it more difficult than it needs to be?"

事实上，除了发现他难懂以外，你可能会说，“为什么他要这样写？“，换句话说，“是的，他的思想很难懂，但是他这样写不是让他的思想更难懂了吗？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Nate smiles and told her not to worry about him, after all,he said, Maudie was having the calf-not he.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

And I called him up and I said, "Look, I'm going to go check out these other summer jobs but then I'll come visit you."

然后我给他回电，说，“我得查一下其他的暑期工,不过之后我会去看你的。“

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

So,I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And,he said he thought that all the free Negroes of the North would come to fight slavery with him.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

It's been said that to quote anybody is necessarily to misrepresent him, and this fact is obviously a very good thing for Lady Mary Chudleigh since Milton would certainly not himself have wanted to suggest that women are superior to men.

有这样一种说法，引用任何人的话都难免曲解其原意，很显然这对玛丽·恰德莱夫人的论证是有利的,因为弥尔顿的原意绝对不可能是说,女人的地位要高于男人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

He was up on a pyre, and he was going to be burned when he remembered Solon, the Greek, who had come to him and warned him about the vain glory, and he said,oh Solon, oh Solon.

他在火葬柴堆上,在即将被烧死之时想到梭伦,这个希腊人曾警告过他,这只是虚荣而已,他感叹着,哎,梭伦,哎,梭伦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He said the most urgent threat that Barack Obama and other presidents after him will have to deal with is another attack.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Indeed, he said in his various pronouncements written for him by someone else that he didn't want to be a king of the old regime, he did not want to turn the clock back to 1788, and that you could combine a modernity with monarchy.

在一篇由人代笔的自我声明中,他表示并不想成为旧有政体的国王,他不想把时间倒退回1788年,完全可以把君主制和现代化结合

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"Do you remember how Germont laughed when I said the mystery was difficult for him to solve because it was so simple?"

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Of course,he said he doesn't particularly care -maybe I should take him to another one.

当然,他说他没有什么特别的要求,也许我应该带他去另外一间餐厅

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He caught a frog one day, and took him home,and said he was going to educate the frog.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

this court is attributed to him, not 100% sure it's his-- said, "I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, " but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."

这个报告厅就是他捐建的，但不能完全确定是他所有的--说过，“我不会认为与复杂性一致的简单性是微不足道的，但我会把我的一生用来研究与复杂性相对的简单性“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But in Rome, German swimmer Paul Biedermann said the growing attention to the issue made him mad.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He said the success of the song gave him the chance to have some of the things he could not have dreamed of.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

John once said that his mother, Sarah Catherine Kendall Galbraith, wanted him to be a farmer also.

VOA: special.2011.05.01