I'll take his words literally; I will kill the cat," he thinks, and so he does. He hangs the cat.

我要杀了那只猫;,如他所愿，“,它就这样杀了那只猫。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That echoes his words in Genesis 1 where he proposes, "Let us make humans," or humankind, "in our image."

这与《创世纪》第一章中，相呼应，上帝说“让‘我们’来造人吧“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I had made him feel that if he whipped me for killing the kitten I would never gave serious way to his words again.

如果他因为我杀了小猫而打我的话,他会无从下台，我也不会再听他的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?

所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论，相信事实就如他所说的一样呢？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

And then for some reason, that nobody understands, 16/15 he decided to multiply again by 16/15, and that's how we get 32 for freezing of water and 96 in his words for the temperature in the mouth or underneath armpit of a living man in good health.

然后，因为同样的原因，没人搞得明白，他决定再乘以，现在水的冰点变成了32度,而96度，拿他的话来说,是健康状况良好的人,口腔或腋窝的温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The wonder of Frost is really in his tone, his way of saying things without saying them in so many words.

弗罗斯特的疑问存在于他的语调，他用极少的词语来叙述。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In other words, in his propaganda, Augustus basically said, "I'm not a king, I'm just another senator, and I'm giving the Senate and the people all their power back."

换句话说，在奥古斯都的宣传中，他声称“我不是国王，我只是普通元老院议员，我将权力交还元老院及人民手中“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The first words or first line out of his mouth or the first lines are " "it is customary," he says.

他开头的前几个字,或前几行是,他说：，“按惯例。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.

我想说的是，塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's one of the purposes of this poem to allow Milton to grow out of his infancy, to incarnate or to put actually into words the talent that he believes himself to possess.

还有一个目的就是,使弥尔顿自己不断成熟，把他相信自己所拥有的,天赋变为文字。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, we have his very words.

我们有一些他写的很优美的话

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I had made him believe that I had taken his words literally.

除非不要威严。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His timing is perfect. He has, in other words, all of the attributes of a great comic writer.

他也总是很懂得掌握时机，其实，他有当一个漫画作家的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She speaks what Yeats calls in his general title for this group of poems Words for Music Perhaps.

她说的话，也即是这一组诗的名字,叫做可以配乐的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The mother has her own way of using words for power, and she does it by making the kitten live again in his imagination.

同样凭借语言，母亲让死猫在理查的心中复活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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