there is almost a kind of metaphorical play between what he's describing and the sounds with which he is doing the describing.

这里有一个比喻,在他描述的东西和,他即将描述的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For all students, what we want to do is we want to give you an understanding of the role computation can and cannot play in tackling technical problems.

对所有学生来讲，我们想做的就是,给你们关于计算在能否解决技术问题中,所扮演角色的,认识。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Each of them is trying to play a best response for what they anticipate the other person's going to do.

每家公司都想采取预料的对方策略的,最佳对策来制定产量

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So the book is really an effort to answer what role America should play in the world.

这本书事实上是在试图,回答美国在世界这个大环境中应该扮演怎样的角色。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So realize you don't have to get it right the first time, but you have to listen and watch to what actually those problems are and that is one of the roles your teaching fellows play.

请认识到，并不是要你第一次就把事情搞对，但是你必须听听，看看,问题是到底什么，这也是你们的助教,扮演的一个角色。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You're going to hear the violins play a running scale, If our beat is this, what note values are in the music of the violinists at this particular moment?

大家待会要听段小提琴演奏连续音阶,如果我们这样打拍子,在这个特定的时间点,这段音乐中小提琴手演奏的时值是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So we're going to listen to a track out of John Kander's Chicago here, and the question that's at- in play at the moment is what's the meter of this cut from chicago?

我们先听一下约翰·肯德尔的作品芝加哥,中的一小段,边听边想一个问题,这个片段的节拍是怎样的,这个摘自芝加哥的片段

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选