Instead of saying, " I wish I had" plus whatever you need to say, you could also use the expression, " If only I had --." For example, " If only I had booked the conference room earlier." " If only I had quoted a better price." Okay?

代替口述，用“I wish I had”加上你想要说的事情，你也可以说成“If only I had --.”。例如，“如果我当时早点订会议室就好了”“如果我早点就能报一个好价钱了”，明白了么？

" Very well, I will dictate, " said Peter.

“好极了，我来口述。”。

There are also some 500 firsthand accounts, oral histories of Asian immigrants and their descendants.

还有大约500份亚洲移民及其后裔的第一手资料和口述历史。

There's a limit to what you can do with the spoken word.

口述的能力是有限的。

It pays tribute to his family's oral tradition and connection to the Vietnam War.

这首诗向他家庭的口述传统以及与越南战争的联系致敬。

Romantics see it as a return to the oral tradition.

浪漫派认为这是向口述传统的回归。

And then what they normally do and what Mr. Charles Simms, my journalism teacher, did is that he dictated a set of facts to us, and then we were supposed to go and write the lede to the story.

然后他们通常做的是，查尔斯·西姆斯先生，我的新闻老师，他给我们口述了一段事实，然后我们应该就这个故事来写篇导语。

And if you want to do these exercises by speaking them rather than writing them, then with voicepower of the app that my team and I building, we've just released a new frameworks feature.

如果你想通过口述而不是书写来完成这些练习，那么可以使用我和我的团队正在开发的 Voicepower 应用程序，我们刚刚发布了一个新的框架功能。

Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want.

正如我们说过的要抛开现象看本质一样，真心诚意地渴求，仅用口述就已经足矣。宇宙自然会接收到你的频率。我们完全可以用简单明了的几句话，甚至几个字，清楚地阐明自己的观点，增强自身的能量。

And so I get away from the idea of writing whatsoever, but I still have some of the advantages of writing because I see what I dictated.

我摆脱了写作的概念，但我仍然有写作的一些优势，因为我看到了我口述的内容。

These hybrid trials had no professional attorneys or judges, and no evidence outside the spoken word and a case file detailing the crimes of the accused.

这些混合审判没有专业律师或法官，除了口述的话语和详细记载被告犯罪的案卷之外，没有其他证据。

Using archives and oral histories collected from survivors, the Museum of British Colonialism produced 3D and digital reconstructions of a colonial concentration camp.

“英国殖民博物馆”利用从幸存者那里收集的档案和口述历史，对一个殖民集中营进行了三维数字化重建。

I'm afraid this leak, wherever it comes from, is a verbatim report of a confidential minute dictated by the PM in Ottowa.

恐怕此次泄密不管源头是谁，都如实复述了首相在渥太华口述的机密纪要。

Desperate to get his last novel out before he kicked the bucket, he tried to hire a typist to take dictation.

为了在去世前出版他的最后一本小说，他试图雇佣一名速记员来记录他的口述。

Then let us visit this diplomatist who is in such evil case, and the lady to whom he dictates his letters.

那我们见见那位遭遇不幸的外交官吧，还有照他口述写这封信的女士。

The prose reads as if it had been dictated rather than written, and was then sent straight to the printers.

它看起来更像是口述后直接交付印刷厂。

Miss Yang, I will dictate some letters to you this morning.

杨小姐，今天上午我要口述几封信。

Now, as I demonstrated earlier, I'm an oral learner, which means I prefer to take in information via sound.

如我刚刚所说，我是一个口述学习者，也就是说我倾向于通过声音吸收信息。

We know from the Native American oral history that she stopped eating, because she missed her family so much.

我们从印第安人口述的历史中得知，她停止了进食，因为她非常想念她的家人。

They can be played by dialing a number on your phone and then the corresponding number of the item.

在手机上拨号加上物品对应的数字，就能播放口述历史。