They seem to be guarding the house.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The thought was that the central bank is guarding the money stock and governments have a tendency to sometimes want to raid the bank when they're in trouble.

观点是,中央银行在保护金融债券,而政府当看到,银行陷入困境时,有查抄这家银行的倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And there was a French gendarme who was guarding the French Jews, a French gendarme guarding the French Jews, and they lifted him out of the movie; they literally took him off the screen.

有个法国警察,看守着法国犹太人,一个法国警察看守着法国犹太人,他们把他从影片里摘了出来,真的把他从银幕里抹掉了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Nearby,soldiers guarding a street corner wear surgical masks issued to them by their commanders.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

And, so, you had this rather odd situation where instead of dogs guarding their masters or mistresses, you had the masters and mistresses guarding the dogs against people who would take the dogs and, unfortunately, kill them and eat them.

真是因为如此,产生了一种奇怪的现象,通常情况下是狗来守护主人的,而现在呢,主人必须时时刻刻保护自己的狗,以免被人抓去宰了吃

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He says security forces where being extremely careful in launching the final raid because a suicide bomber was guarding the hostages in a corner of the building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11