Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

We will plan at the end of the two weeks of reading stories about Japan, true and mostly folk, a lot of folk tales.

我们打算在两周末,读关于日本的故事，有真实的，大部分是神话传说。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

There were tales, inevitable tales of-- and with French food, as you know, presentation accounts for something very much.

还有一些不可避免的传说,关于法国菜的传说,菜的品相是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Listen for a few moments as Warren Scheer reads the beginning of Chaucer's famous "Canterbury Tales."

VOA: special.2011.01.05

His Leatherstocking Tales are full of a certain anxiety about what might be happening to that frontier, what's coming from east to west.

他的《皮袜子故事集》里弥漫着某种焦虑不安,它讲述了西进运动开拓者们从东部来到西部,有可能会遇到的一些事情

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

As the New York Times put it, he "struggled for much of his life with his weight,with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Freud believed that literature and fairy tales and stories to children and the like carried certain universal themes, certain aspects of unconscious struggles, and certain preoccupations of our unconscious mind.

弗洛伊德认为文学作品，童话故事,儿童读物之类的东西,都含有某个一般性的主题，某些方面的无意识冲突，以及某种无意识偏见。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He pointed to the violence in fairy tales like "Snow White" and "Cinderella" and in cartoons.

VOA: special.2011.07.04

They provide some continuity between the tales.

他们为后来的故事提供素材。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Long ago, the people who settled in undeveloped areas in America first told tall tales.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Okay? Not pious tales.

知道吗？，不是寓言故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Long ago,the people who settled in undeveloped areas in America first told tall tales.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Because alongside the idealized portrayal of the Israelite conquest in the first half of the book of Joshua, alongside the call for the destruction of all Canaanites, we find interesting tales of alliances and incorporation of various Canaanite groups.

因为随着对以色列征服的理想化描述,在《约书亚书》的第一部分，随着摧毁所有迦南人的呼声，我们发现了关于同盟趣事,以及迦南各个群体的合并。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Long ago,the people who settled in undeveloped areas of America first told tall tales.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's Me,Margaret", "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and "Blubber."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Chaucer's most famous work is "The Canterbury Tales,"

VOA: special.2011.01.05

but star Sam Worthington says the exploits of Perseus are firmly rooted in the ancient tales of mythological heroes.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Because they knew we didn't understand that." Now he's telling these cultural tales to his 14 children,39 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

It's hard not to get caught up in this funny story. John Bevis tells a lot of tales this time of year when life slows down.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Johnson incorporates the story of the Buffalo Soldiers and his own Native American heritage both his parents are part Indian into the tales he weaves for youth groups and tourists.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25