Grandpa John Bevis sits down in his kitchen, and starts telling a story about how bear lost his long tail.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

She took him willy-nilly to her." He's telling a story about himself, seemingly, but who is the "I," then, that's left over? "I feel her yet."

她犹疑不决地把他拉向自己，他在讲关于自己的故事，似乎是这样，但谁是“我“呢，“我感觉到了她“，又是什么“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Usually before you say "That's why" you're telling a story about something that happened

通常在“That is why”之前，你正在描述发生的一件事情。

That's why 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Simon Wheeler forced me into a corner with his chair and began telling me this long story.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's people really telling their true story and they get a window into other people's lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She was known to have said: "Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth!"

VOA: special.2009.01.11

They're in a -the first thing to understand is that -I start out by telling you the story of the goldsmith banker.

它们...,首先要弄明白的是,在一开始我讲了金匠银行家的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The man telling his story in "Invisible Man" lives in a hidden underground space.

VOA: special.2010.09.19

It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.

这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

as a way to kind of further the process of making, telling the story that you want to tell.

一种帮助你更好地表达想讲的故事的方式。

没有特效的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If someone was telling you this story, is that the first question you would ask? So did she have a precursor? No, probably not. Okay.

如果有人告诉你们这个故事，这会是你们,问的第一个问题吗，可能不是，好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选