Earlier,astronomer George Ellery Hale had offered Hubble a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in southern California.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

because I put myself in a position to meet a lot more interesting people in LA.

因为当时我想接触那些有意思的人。

旧金山和洛杉矶的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They found that the best position for gliding had the back two wings in a position similar to that of a flying squirrel.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

But because of those discoveries, we are now in a position to appreciate the monumental achievements of these early civilizations, these earliest civilizations.

由于那些考古发现，我们现在才能欣赏到,那些早期文明的不朽成就，最早的文明。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is when a student gets experience in a position that may or may not be paid.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Once we get clear about what the relevant metaphysical glue is, we'll be in a position to start asking: Could this happen or not?

一旦我们知道了,形而上粘质是什么，我们就会问：,这会发生吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In nineteen eighty, Fossey left Karisoke and accepted a position at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

How do you describe the politics, if you like, of such a position?

你们会怎么描写政治，如果让你们，描写这种情景下的政治？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They have urged America to take a position of international leadership in coral reef protection and to take steps to reduce the trade's environmental effects.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

It was the ideal embraced by priests and nuns, and it was the ideal to which all Christians theoretically at least were in a position to aspire to.

这是牧师和修女们所拥护的理想，这也是基督教徒们理论上,至少是理应渴望的理想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She accepted a position at the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital in the city of Louisville.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

So not only was he choosing a position close to the Conservatives: he was choosing exactly their position.

他不只是选了一个临近保守派的立场,他选的就是一个保守派的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This means that each student-writer must present information and also take a position.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He eventually got a position at the University of Hamburg where he was a Professor of Physics.

泡利最终在汉堡大学,谋到了一个职位,他做的是大学的物理教授。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The W.H.O.says the international community is now in a position to defeat malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

There are more than 20 amino acids that make up the biological polymers called proteins, so there are 20 choices of each amino acid at a position on a protein.

而那些称为蛋白质的生物活性多聚体,是由二十种不同氨基酸所构成,因此每个蛋白质的,任意位点都有多达二十种氨基酸可供选择

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He moved his forces into a position to fight Santa Ana.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Once a week we assembled the homeland security team which meant in the later part of the administration The Secratary of Homeland Security, 911 which was a position was created in the year after 911.

每个星期,还会组织一次国土安全组的人开会,意味着会议的第二部分,会见国土安全部部长，这个职位是在,之后的一年才创立的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Our regiment occupied a position that was extremely important.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Let's say you are applying for a position as a translator.

假设你正在申请一个翻译的职位。

I'm good at 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

(Speech) He says it is important to stabilize finances but the government is not in a position to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

We can say that Iser's position is a reconstruction of what Gadamer has, essentially, to say about the merger of horizons.

我们可以说，伊瑟尔的观点,本质上是葛达玛观点的改写，比如说视域的融合。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Mr.Thaksin arrived Tuesday in Phnom Penh to take up a position as an economic adviser to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Now this can actually take a while to watch but you'll see that the numbers are moving into position.

现在大家可以观察一会儿，你会发现,数字都被移动到了合适的位置。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Turkmenistan,they are stating a position that they consider basically their policy is that they the gas the border.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

I don't think I have a clearly defined position which makes me different from some parties to the dispute, whether it's political or cultural or religious.

但我不认为自己有一个特定的立场,将我和其他人区分开来，无论是从政治上，文化上还是宗教上。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When he retired from the Navy in 1975, he accepted a position at the University of Southern California.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

But luckily for us, there's a classical equation of motion that will, in fact, describe how the electron and nucleus change position or change their radius as a function of time.

但幸运的是，有一个,经典方程描述了电子和核子,位置或者它们直接的距离是,如何随时间变化的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They were in a very risky position because subprime loans were already recognized as being risky.

这给银行带来极大风险,因为次级债早已被认为具有高风险

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选