These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There seems to be something like a gentle parody maybe even a mocking tone that fills the lines of the Elder Brother's ecstatic speech.

似乎有些东西如文雅诙谐的改编作品甚至是嘲弄的语气,体现在大哥入神的讲话中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yeah. Absolutely. A lot of emphasis, a lot of variation in tone, and the italics are part of the representation of that.

对，绝对是的，很多的强调，很多语气上的变化，而斜体字就是它的表示方法之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And this regime--in this sense the regime describes the character or tone of a society.

这样的政体描绘出,社会的特性或说调性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And I thought that really hurt the film, because it completely changed the tone sort of a bumpy and abrupt and the end In the scene with his aunt, she's overcome with despair.

我觉得它的出现毁了整部影片，因为它彻底改变了影片的基调,使结局显得唐突又自相矛盾,当镜头转到姨妈时，她正努力克服绝望的心情。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The kind of battle I've been describing to you, a nice flat field, two armies coming at each other, there's not much you can do in the way of trickery, and so you can take a high tone and say, anybody who fights any other way is a no good coward.

我向你们描述的这种战争,土地平坦开阔,两军对垒,没有多大机会使用奸计,所以你能大声地说,谁在战争中使奸就是胆小的懦夫

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选