At one time, the president who had retreated and retreated until he was pressed against the wall, could only be secured by a number of gentlemen forming round him and making a kind of barrier of their own bodies.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

So, I've got plus twos, zooming in at high energy against a wall of positive charge.

两个高能的正电荷,在正电荷壁垒时会遇到阻力。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There's the hard sphere. It wants to collide against the wall to create a force on the wall, and I have a couple of the hard spheres that are nearby, right, and in the absence of any interactions, I get a certain pressure.

给墙一个作用力,现在它的附近，还有许多小球,没有相互作用时,它将直接冲向这面墙。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"I went over to Africa as a socialist, and after about five or six years of hitting my head against the wall, became a small "c" capitalist."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

In the case of Nimes, N-I-M-E-S, which was largely a Protestant town, they knocked down the wall so the Protestants of Nimes could not defend themselves against this all-conquering Catholic monarch.

以尼姆为例,那儿曾经是一座新教徒的城市,但统治者们拆毁了围墙,所以新教徒们再也无法对抗,所向无敌的天主教统治者了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Democrats trying to steer reform through Congress against a nearly solid wall of Republican opposition said the president delivered a clear vision and specifics, and a strong message of leadership.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

They threw me up against the wall and checked me out, because I was a kid and I wanted to go there and see, just for the purpose of history, of being there.

他们把我推到墙上开始检查,因为我是个孩子而且我想去那看看,就是为了见证历史,亲身体验

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And all of a sudden he had a crisis Well, I'm not going to get into the depth of it but our banks, because they wanted to make more and more money--and our investment bank, Wall Street--kept issuing different paper against mortgages so it made it simple to give a mortgage.

突然间危机降临在了他的头上,嗯~我不想继续深谈这个问题,但是我们的银行，由于它们想,赚越来越多的钱--还有我们的投行，华尔街--一直都在发行各种各样的抵押贷款票据,那样抵押贷款变得更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选