David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

He tells us that everything that we've read up to this point that has been spoken by a third-person narrator.

他把目前为止我们读到的,所有以第三人称叙述的事情都告诉我们。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We didn't know this. It has been spoken by the uncouth swain, a rustic shepherd.

我们对此并不了解，这首诗是由一个粗鄙的年轻人，一个村夫牧羊人叙述的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Throughout history, the language spoken by a powerful group spreads across a civilization.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

It must be metonymic--but wait! It is spoken by a voice.

它肯定是转喻的，但是等等，它是有声音的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Tiwa language spoken by the Taos Indians has never been written.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

We're talking about a culture when we're talking about the Greeks, which is most strikingly signified by the language that is spoken.

当我们谈论希腊人时我们是谈论希腊文化,是严格以所使用的语言为主要标志的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's quiet, it's warm, Now imagine you're born deaf, you cannot hear, you cannot communicate by spoken words with your friends and family.

四周一片寂静，温暖，再来假设你自幼失聪，不能和家人，朋友用语言交流。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It only becomes a question of knowing the object, of knowing it in and for itself, in its own terms, and not at all necessarily of learning from it, of being spoken to by it.

它仅仅是了解这个对象，了解这个对象本身，不一定是从对象中学习。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选