This sentence expands to a noun followed by a verb followed by a sentence and there you get recursion.

这个句子就扩展成了,一个名词,后跟一个动词,再接刚才的句子,这样就变成了递归

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, at the top of 155, he's asked his question. "'Speak,' he commanded. She whispered, 'Love.'" Now, the problem with that is that answer; it's a verb and a noun.

在第155页上部，他问了自己的问题，说吧’,他命令道，她哭着说，爱，现在，问题是这个答案，爱，可以是动词也可以是名词。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We nominalize it. We talk about it using a noun, the mind.

我们给它起了个名字,称它为心灵

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the way to read this rule is you make a sentence by taking a noun, any noun, putting a verb after it, and then following that verb with a noun.

这个规则的内容是,你这样来创造一个句子,用一个名词,任何一个名词,在名词后跟一个动词,再在动词后跟上一个名词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Noun phrase, verb, noun phrase.

名词词语，动词，名词词语。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Similarly, then, according to the physicalist, talk of the mind, despite the fact that we have a noun there, is just a way of talking about the abilities of the body to do various things.

相似地,物理主义观点认为,心灵,即便这个名词的确存在,只是我们表达,肉体各种行为能力的一种方式

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