"For farmers in sub-Saharan Africa who are subsisting on very little money, a small reduction in price based on American subsidization is a big deal to them."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

I'm wondering if you can say the wrong things to them --to infants based on what you were saying before.

我想问,根据你刚才所讲的,是否能够对婴儿说些错误的表达

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And we Americans are going try to live up to them to prove that governments can in fact, be based on these values.

我们将试图,坚持这些价值观，从而证明事实上政府可以建立，在这些价值观之上。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The faculty members who were teaching his classes that semester then all faced the question posed to them by the administration, based on the work he's done so far this semester, ? has he--what kind of grade are you prepared to give him?

那个学期给他上课的老师们,都面临这个由学校,摆在他们面前的问题，基于他这个学期至今的表现，他能否，你们打算给他什么样的分数？

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