The book was called Lady Sings the Blues. A friend at the New York Post newspaper, William Dufty, helped her write the book.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There are a lot of places you could write a diet book about, but there are many more possibilities: Brazilian, Jerusalem, Greek, The Hilton Head Diet.

有很多地方可以写,这里有更多的例子,巴西人,耶路撒冷 希腊人,希尔顿·海德饮食法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He used less than two hundred twenty-five words to write the book.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

The essay that you read was produced at the behest of his French publisher. They wanted him to write something that would make people feel better about the book, that would give some account of its origin and give some defense for its publication and its content.

你们所读到的那篇短文就是在法国出版商的要求下写的,他们希望他写些什么来让人们对这本书产生更多的好感,来交待这本书的缘起,并且为它的内容和它的出版进行辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

An editor at a publishing house encouraged her to write a book about the sea for the general public.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I want to write a book that said that, you know the greatest patriots in our history, have been those people that said to our government : "Hey, you have to live up to your word.

我想写一本书告诉大家，美国历史上最伟大的爱国者，是那些敢于对政府直言不讳的人,嘿，你可不能食言。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Frank asked his new friend, the American writer Jack Kerouac, to write the introduction to his book of photographs.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

It was very impactful to start a book that way because I doubt that hardly any readers actually write out a check on the spot to UNICEF; but if you don't, then you are in some sense responsible for the loss of 30 lives.

这是一个有力的开场白,因为我认为几乎不会有读者真的,会写张支票把钱寄给联合国儿童基金会,如果你无动于衷,那么你在某种意义上,要为那逝去的30个生命负责

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She decides to make every recipe in Child's best known cookbook in one year and write her own book about the experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

And I worked with that account book, because one of the two slaves I write about in this new book called A Slave No More I publish their two narratives was indeed a young 14-year-old teenager, sold out of North Carolina--from Snow Hill, North Carolina, he was sold in 1860 to Hector Davis in Richmond.

我研究过这本账簿,因为我在这本新著《从奴隶到自由》中,引用了两名奴隶的自述,当时他们年仅十四岁,其中一个从北卡罗来纳州,从北卡罗来纳的斯诺希尔被卖掉,在1860年被卖给了,里士满的赫克托·戴维斯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

To show that she could do more than just write stories, she wrote a book with Ogden Codman, "The Decoration of Houses."

VOA: special.2010.10.24

He got sufficiently upset about this to write a book called I Am Not Spock where he described all the ways in which he was not a Vulcan.

他非常生气，写了一本书,叫《我不是Spock》，在书中他从各个方面,描述了他不是Vulcan人的证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That is why author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer chose to write the children's book "What Darwin Saw: The Journey that Changed the World."

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The book would take her ten years to research and write.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25