Now to the wordplay. Commentators and bloggers often use the word "gate" when a politician is accused of trying to hide the truth.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

That use of the English word "family," Familia although it comes from the Latin, familia, means something totally different in Latin.

那是英语里家庭的意思“,虽然这个词源自拉丁语，但是意思完全不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Usually at the end of an "I'd like" question, you use the word "please"

通常，在“I'd like”问句的末尾，我们会加上“please”，

I'd like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She says the festival's use of the word "maximum" describes India well.

VOA: special.2011.03.16

It allows for this map between a symbol, say a spoken word, and any sort of thought we want to use.

语言允许在符号,比如说出的一个词,与我们想要使用的任何想法之间,存在着这种映射关系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Millions of people all over the world use the word OK.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

We also use the word "Counterpoint" Sort of synonymous with it.

我们也称之为,对位法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

An early American use of the word wildcat was quite different.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

How many of you even use that word anymore?

你们谁还会用这个词呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But Jacob Shapiro at Princeton University says the use of the word "war" actually helps the terror groups.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In addition to the controversy about the use of the word Allah, the judicial system has put new emphasis on enforcing Sharia law among Muslims.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Don't get hung up on what does the English word invisible mean, Let's just ask oursleves what notion of invisibility, if you'll use the word you know, between these three ways, what notion did Socrates' arguement turn on.

不要专注于,无形这个词到底是什么意思，我们就问问自己,无形这个概念，如果这个词可以，有这三种解读方法，苏格拉底所指的到底是哪个。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

President Obama did not use the word "democracy" when speaking about Afghanistan on Friday, although he spoke of such democratic principles as elections and human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

President Saakashvili notes that Clinton's use of the word "occupation" is especially meaningful.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

When I say "pigeon," I don't really seem to have any particular sense of an onomatopoetic word, but if I use the Latin, pipio, which means "to chirp," all of a sudden I say, "Oh, that's onomatopoetic."

当我说鸽子的时候,这个词并不能，反应它自身的意思，但是如果我用拉丁语说鸽子，也就是咕咕“,这就是拟声了“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

I've certainly written code that has this problem, I've tried to use my own code that has this problem, and good to us, right, good hygiene, I'm going to use that word again here, of getting into the habit of writing defensive code up front, it's part of that collection of things that you ought to do is a great thing to do.

我举手了吧？,我当然写过犯这种错误的程序了,我也尝试过应用含有这种错误的代码，不错，好的卫生，我还是要用这个词,对我们有帮助，养成写防卫性,代码的好习惯，是你应该做的,一系列事情之一,也是我们日后要做的主要的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, I use the word colony because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.

所以我之所以用殖民地这个词,是因为描述这种扩张行为我们只有这个词

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the problem is if you use the word "Language" impossibly, incredibly broadly, then from a scientific point of view it becomes useless to ask interesting questions about it.

但问题是,如果你无限宽泛地使用"语言"一词,那么从科学的角度来看,探究语言就变得毫无意义了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You could use a sign language thing for "Drink" that looks sort of like the act of drinking but you can't use a sign language word for "Country" that looks like a country, or for "Idea" that looks like an idea.

你可以用看起来像喝这个动作的手语,来表示"喝",但你无法用看起来像国家的手语,来表示"国家",或用看起来像想法的手语来表示"想法"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选