Neither official would provide any insight into the closed-door White House deliberations on the way forward in Afghanistan, which are expected to be concluded within the next few weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

In any case, the tension between denotation and connotation is part of the way in which irony works.

在任何情况下，讽刺的作用,都是表达了符号和涵义之间的张力。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now can any of you think of one way that you do this, which is reconnecting with nature, and in some ways what are some techniques to advise the interviewer?

所以我很好奇你们有没有,类似的经历,和自然重新建立了联系,有没有一些技巧,告诉主持人？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And there's been some efforts cross-culturally, to go back to the question this young man asked before looking at cross-cultural differences in toilet training and weaning, which are really big differences, to see if they correspond in any interesting way to personality differences.

回到刚才那位同学提出的问题，确实也已经有些跨文化的研究试图探究,在如厕训练和断奶上的跨文化差异,这些差异是非常大的，而这些研究的目的，是为了看看这些跨文化上的差异,是否与人格差异存在着某种联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, I just think that if he was making his own original idea and it was his idea to start with, then that would be the only situation in which I would see it being appropriate in any way because that way you couldn't make the argument that he was pressured, you know it's three-to-one or whatever the ratio was.

我只是认为，如果这就是他的本意,是他主动要求被杀的，只有在这种情况下,我才认为无论从哪方面来说都是恰当的,因为那样的话，就不能说派克是被迫的，毕竟当时是3对1的局面，派克不占优势。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选