她的父亲等待着，没有说一句话。

Her father just waited without saying a word.

youdao

克拉拉几乎每说一句话就停下来，因为她得四处看看。

Clara stopped after nearly every sentence, for she had to look around.

youdao

只要你说一句话，我的仆人就必好了。

But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

youdao

We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And I'll say "how are you" and you say something to the effect that if I could afford a latte in this world, I'm doing well.

我问您最近怎么样，您有一次,说了一句话，大致意思是，如果我能,享受得起一杯拿铁，那一切就还好。

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He says--and here's that Yeatsian word "all" again--he says: When I try to put all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

他说，又是他涵盖一切的词：,当我想用一句话概括时，我说，人可以表现他不理解的真理“

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