I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

But for the Greeks, as I think for quite a few other people in the ancient world, death was nothing in the worst sense of the word.

而对希腊人而言,我认为同时对很多其他的,古代人而言皆亦然,死亡是最恐怖的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The trouble with the etymology of theory and the way in which the word has been used traditionally is that sometimes it actually means practice, and then at other historical periods it means something very different from practice, something typically from which practice is derived.

理论这个词在词源,和传统的使用方法上的复杂之处在于,它有时候指的是实践，但在特定的历史时期,它指的是和实践非常不同的东西，也就是实践产生的依据。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In fact,some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

So wherever you see '"LORD" in small caps, that's actually the English translation for Yahweh, the proper name, like almost a personal name for God. And then in other places we have this word Elohim, which actually is the word for "gods," a sort of generic term for deities in the plural.

所以你们看到小写的时,其实是耶和华的英文翻译，正确的名字,像是上帝个人的名字,有时候我们用，Elohim一词，这是对,神一词的复数形式的翻译。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Taney said there was no word in the Constitution that gave Congress greater power over slave property than over any other kind of property.

VOA: special.2009.05.14