Chico also made funny jokes about words and expressions that sound alike but have different meanings.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

In "Mowing," the scythe makes a sound as it cuts, and that sound is delicate, it's quiet, it whispers.

在“割草“中镰刀割草时发出声响，这个声音很微弱，安静，像低声细语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

If it was sound that was being received that might be beating of a drum, for example, that sound gets transduced.

如果将配体看作是,有待接受的敲鼓声,声音信号得到了转换

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I knew that sound well,too. It was the beating of the old man's heart.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The laugh is a lot like the "wow." It's that sound you make just because you're experiencing something, just because you're having a response to what's in front of you, something someone says.

这笑声很像“哇“这个字，是一种,因为正在经历某些事而发出的一种声音，作为你对面前发生的事或是，一些人说的话的反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He can even make noises that sound just like the birdcalls.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

One of the things, by the way, that Eikhenbaum does in passing is remind us that we should be on our guard against thinking that sound is onomatopoetic--that is, that it reflects the meaning of what it's talking about.

艾肯鲍姆在书中提到,他特别提醒我们,不应该赞同拟声现象，拟声就是认为声音能反应它所表达的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What does that sound like? Here's a version of "Workingman Blues" recorded during the 2008 festival.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

A sequence of chords that sound good together, kind of make sense together; we could say that sort of march along in a purposeful fashion.

放到一起好听的一组和弦，在一起有意义的和弦，我们也可以把它说成一组和弦有目的的行进。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Other selections are new compositions by members of the group - works that sound very different from anything the Balinese people will have heard before.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Does that sound in any way familiar from what we have read this term?

这听起来和我们前边读过的什么,是不是有相似之处啊？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Democritus Well, doesn't that sound an awful lot like Democritus?

那听起来是不是很像？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"I drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound that I hear in my head to come out of the speakers.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Does that sound like a good thing to march into battle?

不清楚听起来是否有利于行军

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Does that sound plausible that you could see the difference?

上面两种情况听起来似乎不太一样,可你真的看到了不同吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A pickup is a device that captures the vibration of the metal guitar strings and changes them into electronic sound signals.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Did Buddhist uses that as well, I heard that in Hindu terms, like the sound of the origins of the universe.

佛教徒也会用到这些吗，我在印度教中听到过，就好像是宇宙起源时的声音。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is sound recorded with equipment placed underwater near the busy shipping lanes off Vancouver Island in Canada.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

I think that word "see" deserves the accent there, and so it's--the first unit of sound isn't quite normative.

我觉得“看“是重音，这是第一个音律不规则的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is night time. And the only sound that can be heard is the long, lonely whistle coming from the train's engine.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Before long the speaker realizes that this fantasy is starting to sound a little extreme or maybe a little dangerous.

不久之后诗歌发言者意识到,这个幻景,开始听起来有点过头或危险了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Park Service rangers explain that mother bats find their babies by remembering their location, their smell and the sound of their cry.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

And now, if I'm touching mouse pointer, we saw that Boolean expression before, play sound meow, wait a couple of seconds, and then just keep checking.

现在，如果我们碰下鼠标指针，起初我们看到一个布尔表达式，播放猫叫的声音，等几秒钟，然后如刚才那样做检测。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He worried that producer Dennis Herring might have too much control over the final sound of the songs.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

If you were to just talk into an oscilloscope that measured your sound vibrations, there are no pauses between the words.

如果你对着,测量声震的示波器讲话,你会发现在单词间并没有停顿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Ohga and others believed that the excellent sound quality of the CD would make it popular.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

This should all sound incredibly familiar, like I'm just repeating myself in terms of photoelectric effect, because essentially that's what I'm doing, and that's one reason we spent so much time and did so many problem-set problems on the photoelectric effect.

这应该听起来极其熟悉，就像我在重复自己在讲光电效应时所说的话，因为基本上我正是在这样做，这也是我们在光电效应这个问题上,花这么多时间,做这么多习题的原因之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You hear about it in various terms that sound abstract.

你们会对风险管理的抽象语汇有所耳闻。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选