what would it mean to read this letter out loud in a community, not alone in your dorm room,or just by yourself,in the library?

为什么书信要在人群中大声朗读，而不是在寝室里，图书馆里一人看？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So this is our little Google calendar that we embed in the course's website, and this is the number of office hours we had just in the next couple of days alone.

这是我们的小google日历，我们把它嵌入在,课程网站中，这是我们,接下来几天的办公时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选