"When I was growing up - 'shoo!' - out the door in the morning and you'd play outside until the streetlights came on at night."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Often, to illustrate the issues of ambiguity, people have collected poorly thought-out headlines in newspaper reports that play on--that inadvertently have ambiguity.

通常,为了说明模糊性的问题,人们收集了那些未经深思熟虑的,在无意间造成模糊性的新闻标题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They play so rarely, and then it's so important when they do play, they'll be out there: seventy-eight-two, seventy-nine-two, eighty-two, eighty-one-two-- You've got to count forever.

他们演奏的机会很少,因此每次演奏都很重要,到时候,他们就会这样,七十八-二,七十九-二,八十-二,八十一-二,得一辈子数下去

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

On 223 we find out that Mona, Lolita's friend from the play, her baby sibling--we're not told whether it's a boy or girl--dies, and we see it in one of those parentheticals, 223. This is Mona's letter.

在223页我们发现莫娜，洛丽塔在演出中认识的朋友，她未出世的,我们不知道是弟弟还是妹妹,死去了，我们在一句附言中,发现了这一点，223页。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So we're going to listen to a track out of John Kander's Chicago here, and the question that's at- in play at the moment is what's the meter of this cut from chicago?

我们先听一下约翰·肯德尔的作品芝加哥,中的一小段,边听边想一个问题,这个片段的节拍是怎样的,这个摘自芝加哥的片段

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I like this piece because it does something and I've used it in previous years, and I put it on and I would announce "I'm now going to play out of the-- It's an album called Document by REM ," and put it on and REM and it's fine with me.

我很喜欢这曲子,因为它确有独到之处,过去几年的教学中我一直用到,我往往会说,现在我放一段曲子,这张专辑叫,文档,是REM乐队的,然后就放曲子,我没觉得有什么问题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选