Writing teachers say students in many countries have learned to write beautiful descriptions about something without ever stating the main idea.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It would be utterly inadequate for us to account for this institutional and surreal institutional power that Milton holds over us by stating blandly that Milton is the greatest English poet.

要解释弥尔顿为什么能对我们施加,这样硬性的甚至荒诞的控制,仅仅说弥尔顿是最伟大的英国诗人是远远不足的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So Lesson 2, and this lesson probably wouldn't be worth stating, if it wasn't for sort of a century of thought and economics that said the opposite.

结论二,若要不是经济学,近一个世纪来讲的是相反的道理,这个结论都不值得一提

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Turkmenistan,they are stating a position that they consider basically their policy is that they the gas the border.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Now, in stating this view this way, I'm obviously presupposing that we can make these kinds of, at least, overall judgments in terms of the quality of your life, how well off you are.

经过这样审视这个观点，显然我是事先假设了我们能够做出,起码是对生命质量,做出一般性的判断，你有多幸福。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But U.S.Senator John Kerry and Representative Howard Berman on Wednesday gave Qureshi a document stating that the package does not impose any conditions on Pakistan or infringe on its sovereignty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

It sounds like too obvious even to be worth stating in class, so let me now try and shake your faith a little bit in this answer.

这个道理太很明了甚至不值得讨论,那我们来看看到底是不是这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The time for re-stating well known positions is past,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08