People began to speak of him as a presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

To speak of shepherds and shepherding in a pastoral poem seems almost invariably to be a strategy or a way to speak of poets and their craft of poetry.

在田园诗里描绘牧羊人,看起来是一种固定不变的策略或者方式,用以描述诗人和他们的造诣。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

we are sort of all forced to take part in these different subjects and gain a well-roundedness, so to speak.

我们不得不学习这些完全不同的课程，像是面面俱到的感觉。

介绍好朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It has over 700 different language groups, no national transport system to speak of and few government services that actually operate outside of the capital, Port Moresby.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

It would be vulgar, he believes, to speak of justice, or any virtue in terms of material rewards or consequences.

他相信，如果在谈论正义或任何美德时,仅以物值回报或后果作为衡量标准。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"But what will my duties be? Do I have to personally reject these three thousand good-for-nothings you speak of?

VOA: special.2010.04.24

But to speak of an intentional structure as a center is not at all the same thing as to speak of an intending person, author, being, or idea that brought it into existence, because that's extraneous.

但是讲到一个作为中心的意向性结构,与讲到一个创造它的人，作者，存在，或概念是完全不同的，因为那是外来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When I visited Madame Vulpes, she let me speak to the spirit of the man who invented the microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It's almost a way of inviting us to visualize the separation of these two people as they speak.

这几乎是吸引我们去观察,说话的两个孤立的个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Most American girls at the beginning of the twentieth century were taught to sit quietly and speak softly.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Is that how important is it that we get control of that border and seal it, so to speak.

对于我们来说,控制或者是夺取这个关口，是不是很重要呢。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Every time the friends try to speak, another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

So I want to ask you now, and be brave and speak out, in your reading of the story did anything of that nature strike you?

我希望大家能勇敢的说出来，在你们阅读中有没有发现什么奇怪的地方？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I speak for the return of that general feeling of agreement which makes the blessings of this union so special to us all."

VOA: special.2009.04.02

We decrement so to speak the variable and then where will we go next in terms of the flow control, the flow of this program.

可以这么说，我们递减这个变量,然后按照控制流，即程序流进入到下一语句。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But she continued to travel, speak and study almost to the end of her life.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Of course, there would be larger denominations than $100, but by tradition, we speak of them as if they were bonds that you paid $100 to get.

当然,面额肯定大于100美元,但是按照传统,我们在讨论长期债券的时候,就假设你支付了100美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He stopped in many places to speak about the need for the League of Nations.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

Although it's not true that you are speaking French-- let's suppose that you know how to speak French-- it's still true of you while you're asleep that you can or could speak French.

虽然你并不在说法语-,先假设你会说法语-,但是确实在你睡觉时,你是有可能开口说法语的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Missus Obama praised the determination of the students, who sent thousands of letters to the White House asking her to come speak at their graduation.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Now that--If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause.

如果你只接触过英语,那么刚才的问题就看上去非常奇怪了,因为你在听我讲话,而你会在我所说的单词之间听到一个停顿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He seemed a part of the darkness and silence of the forest, for no one had ever known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

The experience of having language speak through him and do things that he doesn't understand makes him want to acquire again that agency that he experienced when he took his father's words literally.

理查对自己所处的状态一无所知,说什么做什么都不明就里,这时的他渴望回到遵从父亲时期的状态,找回那种极富技巧的沟通方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She could speak to the dead and read the minds of the living.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

This kind of ritual honor all the time I mean after all we have a president who just likes to speak like a Texan, he doesn't do all that honor stuff.

这种走过场的形式到处都是,毕竟我们的总统在讲话的时候,很喜欢装成德州佬的样子,他不喜欢做面子工程

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

One sign of multiple sclerosis is losing the ability to speak clearly.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

to make sure that you speak with someone who is very knowledgeable about the prices of certain things.

一定要跟某些很了解价格行情的人谈谈。

关于购买艺术品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This historical film tells the story of how Britain's King George the Sixth overcame a speech problem in order to speak to his country during World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.02.21

It makes me really nervous to speak like Japanese and Spanish because of my pronunciation,

我一说日语和西班牙语就很紧张，因为我的发音。

学习外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

All of these systems we can call "languages," and "language"--that is to say, the words that we use when we speak to each other is one of those systems.

这种系统我们称为语言“,也就是说，是关于我们说话用语的研究,关于那个系统的研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选