这些是他们的书，不是吗？

These are their books aren't they?

youdao

那些是他们的书。

Those are their books.

youdao

是他们的书吗？

Are they their books?

youdao

So when you see the word book,the mechanical thing they're actually talking about is a scroll.

所以当你看到书这个字时,他们实质上说的是卷轴。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You have to choose. Well, critics took it fairly straightforwardly as the account of a life and in that sense, taking it that way, some of them were a little disappointed with what they held in their hands.

你必须做出取舍,批评家十分直截了当地，把它看成是生活的流水帐,因此有些人会对他们手中的书稍有失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选