MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

And kids were having a hard time in school just because of the language barrier.

在校的儿童们遇到的困难主要来自于语言沟通障碍。

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Something remarkable is happening to the poet and to his language at the same time.

叶芝的诗歌发生了惊人的变化,他的语言也变了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

From time to time, they wandered to Egypt or Mesopotamia often in search of pasture for their animals. And various details of their language, their customs, their laws, their religion, it's argued, seem to fit well into the period of the Late Bronze Age.

时而不时的，他们常在埃及或美索不达米亚游荡,为他们的牲口寻找牧场，大量关于他们的语言,他们的习俗，他们的律法，他们的宗教的细节，据说，都与融入了后青铜时期的特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So I would help myself to this language of space-time worm object that extends not only over space but also over time, and distinguish the entire worm from the various slices or stages that either make up the worm or we could slice the worm into.

然后我借助时间虫这个词,这是描写物体,贯穿时间和空间的词语，并区分出整条虫,和不同的部分,这些部分是组成虫，或者虫可以切分成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, in the language of calculus, x is a function of time and this is a particular function.

所以,从微积分的角度来看,x是一个关于时间的函数,而且是个很特殊的函数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

All right. So I suppose in the time remaining and, alas, there isn't a lot of it we'd better ask what "language" is. We've talked about it.

好，我想在剩下的时间里，天啊，时间不多了,我们最好来说说什么是语言，我们已经谈论过这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选