Tardos Mors met with the soldier and reported that every creature on the planet had but three days to live.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

For a language like English, that creature there is referred to with the morpheme "Dog."

对于像英语这样的语言,那种生物被表示为语素"狗"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, Blind creature; and awhile he didn't see.

她让他看，当然他看不到，失明的人;过一会他又不愿意看。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She was fearful for the baby for the little creature that was coming into the world.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

The Hebrew word that designates the creature created by God is ; the word adam. It's actually not a proper name, small a; it is adam, it's a generic term.

希伯来语中命名上帝所造之物的词语正是,“亚当“它其实并不是一个准确的名字;,他是上帝所创之物，是类属的名称。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They found that the top of the ancient creature was light brown in color.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

But of course, if you were a simple perceptual creature, you would just see that there'd be a bar on top and a bar on the bottom.

如果你只是个拥有感知的简单生物,你只会看到在顶端和底端分别有一根木杆

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At the same time, it is a kind of family drama and there is an inherent humor in a family drama that has a creature as the child."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

our chimps even have televisions." But such creature comforts don't change the fact that chimpanzees used in medical research may suffer or die, and that's unacceptable to famed primate expert Jane Goodall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

And one claim, which we're going to return to briefly next class when we talk about language, is that there's a very, very big difference between a creature that doesn't have language and a creature that does.

我们下节课讲述语言时,会简单地讲述一个观点,也就是在未掌握语言的生物,与掌握语言的生物之间,存在着巨大的差异

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选