在未确实读信之前我什么也不想说。

I didn't want to say anything without actually reading the letter first.

《牛津词典》

相反，只有一个人走到麦克风前读信。

Instead, only one person walks up to a microphone and reads a letter.

youdao

现在来读信吧！

Now come and hear the letter.

youdao

You remember the "Letter to a Friend" that we looked at for the last time.

你们记得上节课我们读的《信朋友的一封信》吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.

这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In the forty-sixth chapter of Leviathan, a chapter we will read later, Hobbes wrote, "I believe that scarce anything can be more repugnant to government than much of what Aristotle has said in his Politics, " nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."

在《利维坦》第，46，章，我们稍后就会读到的一章，贺伯斯写到：，“我就不信有任何,更令人反感的政府可以比得上,那个亚里士多德在其《政治学》中所描述，还有一大部份的《伦理学》更是无知至极“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选