What place can it occupy in each type of discourse, what functions can it assume, and by obeying what rules?"

它可以在每种话语中占据什么样的位置，它在遵循什么原则的情况下可以有什么样的功能？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is the fact that we occupy a finite volume in space, because they're little hard spheres in this molecule.

这是由气体分子在空间中,占据有限体积造成的,因为事实上它们是硬的小圆球。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This is a story that is predominantly in Genesis 2 and trickles into Genesis 3 and I'm going to look at it mostly in isolation from the first account.I'm going to be looking at it in light of an important parallel.

这个故事在《创世纪》2，3章中占据很重要的地位,我采用脱离对第一个故事的描述方法,将这两个故事，放在同等重要的位置上来解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The American companies have major reach and major power, and a lot of the increase in growth in the fast food industry is happening outside the U.S.

美国公司在快餐工业中占据主要市场份额,获得主要权利,取得较快增长,这种情况在正在美国本土之外发生

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I think it's very important to notice that some of these places that were big in the Mycenaean world were entirely abandoned and not settled again by the Greeks.

我认为值得注意的是,这些地方中有些是,在迈锡尼文明中占据重要地位的城邦,就这样被彻底遗弃了,而且并没有被希腊人重建

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So we want to look at any element that has a 3 p orbital filled, but that does not then go on and have a 4 s, because if it had the 4 s filled then we would actually see six lines in the spectrum.

所以，我们要找一找有哪些元素的,3，p，轨道被占据，但没有，4，s，轨道被占据,因为如果，4，s，轨道也被占据了,那我们会在光谱中看到第六条谱线。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Of course there are lots of states that would have maybe local pockets of one substance in excess and another substance in excess somewhere else In other words, there would be lots of states nearby to the equilibrium state.

当然，我们有很多的态,这些态中，某些位置被一种气体完全占据,另外一些位置被另一种气体完全占据,换句话说,在平衡态附近有很多的态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And there's disorder achieved by occupying the full available volume.

如果分子能够占据，所有可能的体积,那体系中就会有会无序。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I mean, if the energy is lower to occupy a smaller volume, then if I have this room and a bunch of molecules of oxygen, and nitrogen and what have you in the air, and there are weak attractions between them, why don't they all just sort of glum together and find whatever volume they like.

我的意思是，如果占据小的体积会使能量降低，如果我有这样一个空间,和一些氧气，氮气和其他空气中有的气体，并且分子之间还有微弱的相互作用，为什么他们不黏在一起,然后占据他们所想要占据的体积。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选