I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画,使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Pulling this lever or pushing the button would actually rotate the paper enough so that you'd be on a new line and it would also move the little imprinting head that prints the letters of the alphabet and such all the way to the left.

拉杆或按下按钮会让纸翻一下,这样你就能在新的一行上打字了,同时移动打印字母的,压印头,这样也能移到最左边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well it turns out a bunch of years ago people just decided that if we have the ability to express numbers and we actually care about expressing letters of the alphabet, well we just need some kind of mapping between one and the other, ASCII and so thus was born what's generally called the ASCII.

结果证实，数年前,人们觉得如果我们,有数字表达能力,而我们真正在乎其实是字符的表达，那么我们就需要数字和字符的某种对应关系，于是就有了俗称的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选