Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Part of that is the elimination of small words, "the," "and"; the abbreviation of certain words, "your" to "yr."

他们语言的一部分是对小词的省略，如“这“，“和“，和一些词的缩写“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She's confronted him with having knowingly taken the father's words the wrong way: "You stop that lying.

她母亲已对理查,使用的方法心知肚明：,““不要再撒谎了“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Jungen has said that the sports industry makes free use of American Indian words and images to describe its teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

In other words, the reduction of excitation is obviously something that the pleasure principle is all about.

换句话说快乐原则关注的不就是,减少兴奋吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I thank you for that." We leave you with these words from another one of the friends, Nancy Lang.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Verse in which there is nothing but the beat of the metre furnished by the accents of the polysyllabic words we call doggerel. Verse is not that.

诗句中没有其他的东西,只有节奏,这节奏是由多音节的词造成的,我们叫打油诗，诗歌不是这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Did those words mean that she must lose him now when they had just learned the lesson of life?

VOA: special.2009.11.14

How troubling though -- this seems undeniable -- and how strange that Woolf really at her most radical is echoing the very words of the power that she's opposing!

多么让人不解--但这又是不可否认的--多么奇怪,伍尔夫在她最激进的言论中附和弥尔顿的字字句句,而弥尔顿的力量正是她所反对的！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These are words that visitors use to describe Dolly Sods, a large wild area in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

That temple at Delphi had written above the Temple these words, "Know Thyself," And another statement, "Nothing in Excess."

神庙的上方镌刻成这样几句话,"认识你自己",还有一句是,"适可而止"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was an experience that began with a few simple words: "I am going around the world on a motorcycle."

VOA: special.2009.01.14

And these are words that are very meaningful when you read the text of a problem or of a process Any questions before we got to the zeroth law?

这些词汇会非常有意义,在我们进入第零定律前,有没有什么问题,我们差不多已经，讲完了？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

So all of these programs or commands that we've been using thus far for the piece set in class, take what we call command line arguments, they are the zero or more words that follow the program's name.

所有我们一直在课堂上使用的,这些程序或者命令，携带着命令行参数，它们是跟在,程序名的后面的一个或多个单词。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But he said the voting made it clear, in his words, "that the future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq."

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Is that something that can go for a semester or in the best of words for at least a year or more.

这种活动可以持续一个学期,乐观地说，至少可以一年甚至更长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For that reason, says Mister Stephens, the more someone swears, the less of an effect the words have.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

In other words, his point is that good is only possible because of the prior existence of bad.

换句话说，他的论点是,善存在的可能,仅在恶的事先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that this was,in her words, "not an appropriate time to consider" the loan.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It's words to you, or to the reader of the code, that are telling you what's going on inside of this code. OK?

注释是一些对你，或者对代码阅读者说的一些话，告诉你这段代码,是干什么的，对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They say that instead of government issue or general issue, GI came from the words galvanized iron.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Wednesday will be the test, Test 1, and I will say a few words about that, coverage through the end of lecture on Wednesday.

星期三会有测试，测试，我将说一些关于考试的事，周三的考试内容，涉及到这节课的末尾部分。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The singer said the testing shows that she is,in her words, borderline positive for the disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

And they walk significantly slower toward the elevator, not knowing that they were primed with old words.

走向电梯的速度明显慢，虽然不知道自己被与“老“相关的字影射过。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Most of the words come from a vocabulary list that gets updated about every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

You can pick out words that are identical. The purpose of the law is to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty."

你可以找出完全相同的话，法律的目的是,“树立正义，保障国内的安宁，建立共同的国防,增进全民福利和确保我们自己及我们後代,能安享自由带来的幸福“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Stowe's words painted a picture of slavery that most people in the North had never seen.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

So, for instance, one example is there's no language in the world that ever constructs a question by switching the order of words around in a sentence.

举例来说,世界上并没有语言能够通过,改变句子中词的顺序,来构成疑问句

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选