If you have not heard what a caller said, it is much more polite to say "I'm sorry. Could you say this again, please?" than to simply say "What?"

如果你还没有听到打电话的人说了什么，更礼貌的说法是：“对不起。你能再说一遍吗？”而不是简单地说：“什么？”

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A club used to be like your house, where you could say something and it would stay there.

以前的俱乐部就像自己的家，你能在那里说说话，只有现场的人能听到。

youdao

You could almost say that its ordinariness makes it a classic tale.

你甚至可以说它普通到能成为为一则经典寓言。

youdao

So, if there is one section of the lecture that I went a little too quickly for, you could say, gee, if I could just see that five minutes, you could click on it, zoom into that five minutes, play it a few times, and then say, I still don't know what he's talking about.

所以，如果有那节课,我上得过快，你可以说，天啊，我多希望我能看到那5分钟，你就能点击它，选择那五分钟，播放几次，然后说，我还是不知道他在说什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This makes it difficult you could say and this is Aristotle's point I think this makes it difficult for the philosopher to be a good citizen of any actual regime.

可以这么说，这让它变得很难搞,而这也是亚里士多德的重点,我认为这让哲学家很难成为好公民,无论身处那一种现行政体中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

if your friend asked to borrow $100 from you, ... you would probably not say-- you might actually put interest on this person, so you could say, alright, I'll do it with 5% interest, pay me back in a year.

你的朋友向你借100美元，你可能不会说-,你可能会对他收取利息，因此你没准会说，好吧，我要收5%的利息，一年之后连本带利还我。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I guess you could say it's a mild setback, " assistant general manager John Ricco said.

WSJ: Ankiel signs with Mets, starts in center field

You could say it's a boy scout - it's prepared.

BBC: Nature's medicine maker decoded

"They've won lots of times at the Crucible and countless other tournaments as well so you could say it's been a big week for me, scalping wise, " said Robertson.

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