John went to see Judge Tone, explained what he wanted to do.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

And then watch what happens to the prose style and the difference in tone: I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.

然后看看那些散文风格,及语调发生的改变：,我发现要恰如其份地表现一刹那的那种颤栗，那种动了感情发现的碰撞，真是最为困难。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

All right. Now as you read Iser you'll see immediately that in tone, in his sense of what's important, and in his understanding of the way in which we negotiate the world of texts he much more closely resembles Gadamer than Hirsch.

你们在读伊瑟尔时，立马可以感觉到,在他的语气，对重点的把握中,以及他对我们读懂文章的方法上的理解,他更像葛达玛，而不是赫施。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I kept hoisting mine up, but when you've got Christmas hams like mine,mate, the other boys tended to say 'pull your skirt back down again.' That's when you know what the tone of the movie is.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

So it's a whole series-- when we listen to a single tone it's a whole series, and what Eva was doing there is playing out the notes in that series successively, and we'll keep banging on that.

它们是一系列的声音,我们听单频音,其实听到的是整个系列,伊娃刚才所做的就是,一个接一个奏响那个系列中的音符,关于这部分,我们会继续探讨

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选