We cannot say writing came into being belatedly with respect to speech in order to reproduce, imitate, or transcribe speech.

我们不能说书写比演讲产生得更晚,是为了复制，模仿，或者是记录下演讲的内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Every city has their own unique qualities and things to do, so I cannot really say a specific city.

每一座城市都有自己的特质和可以做的事情，所以我说不出具体哪个城市最好。

我喜爱的城市 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One thing you cannot say about him is that he's culturally insensitive, arguably one of the most sensitive people alive.

但你不能说他在文化方面不敏感，他可以说是还在世的最敏感的人之一。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You cannot say, "I never heard of it. I don't know where it came from."

你就不能再说,"我从没听说过,我不知道它是怎么来的"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me.

我从哪里得到肉给他们吃呢？,当他们都在我面前哭号，‘给我肉吃’,我无法独自管理这些人，这负担对我来说太沉重了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's going to say,look,the personality theory of personal identity has an implication that we cannot possibly accept.

这是说个人认同感的人格理论,含有一个我们可能无法接受的暗示。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says--and here's that Yeatsian word "all" again--he says: When I try to put all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

他说，又是他涵盖一切的词：,当我想用一句话概括时，我说，人可以表现他不理解的真理“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You will say that man cannot hold property in man.

也许你会说一个人不能把另一个人当财产

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You cannot say to me, "Take a force, due to a spring, and see what force it applies and divide by the acceleration and get the mass, " because we haven't defined force, either.

你不能说,"给弹簧施加一个力,看看它能提供多大的力,然后除以加速度,得到质量",因为我们还没给力下一个定义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

You cannot say, "I will look it up."

你不能说 "我得查查"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

We cannot trust all people, Aristotle seems to say.

我们不能信任所有的人，亚里士多德似乎这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选