Top-down processing is an example of when you know what something is you hear it that way.

举例来说,自上而下加工就是,当你知道某句话是什么的时候,你便会按照这句话去听

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century, though they would have been very angry to hear me say this, was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.

进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中,尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满,与基督教对永生的信仰类似

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the first place, they are young aristocrats, and Glaucon's desire to hear justice praised for its own sake indicates something about his scale of values.

首先，他们是年轻贵族，而，Glaucon，想听到,正义自我礼赞的愿望,点出他的价值格局。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选