"In the House of Representatives, it is really a question of whether Obama's Democrats are going to lose 15 seats or 25 seats or the 40 seats necessary for the Republicans to take over."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

So think about these things, don't pass over these details lightly, and don't take them for granted.

我们不应该轻易忽略细节，也不要想当然。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They might decide that we have some investment over there we just lost money on and we should take a write off for that.

他们决定说,有几笔投资赔了钱,我们得减掉这些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Take, for example, page 924 over onto 925 when he quotes from Levi-Strauss' introduction to the work of Marcel Mauss on the subject of the birth, event, or emergence of language.

例如，924页到925页，当他引用，列维，施特劳斯,关于马歇尔，莫斯的介绍,涉及马歇尔，莫斯所讨论的语言的诞生，发展和危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a unique piece because what he does is take some very basic patterns and simply repeats them over and over and over again for about fourteen and a half minutes depending upon the tempo that the conductor is taking the music.

这是件独特的作品,因为他仅仅只是把一些基本的样式,简单地重复重复再重复,大概十四分半钟,当然这也取决于,演奏者的演奏速度

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选