President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

You know, one famous tactic is--if you have an infantry force coming forward, you send tanks in it to break up the line of the infantry, so that you can defeat the infantry in that way.

最有名的战术是,如果有敌方步兵逼近,你把坦克派过去,破坏他们的步兵阵型,以这种策略对付步兵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He describes for us his own power that somehow manages to survive even a terrifying and humiliating defeat like the one he's just experienced.

他向我们描述了他的力量--在经历了这样一次,可怕的令人羞辱的失败之后,他还是顽强的生存下来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

But the action of the Republic takes place long before the defeat of Athens, before the rise of the Thirty and the execution of Athens .

但《理想国》撰写的时间,远早于雅典战败，及三十暴君掌权之前,也早于雅典被处决之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It suggests that six young men are working together to defeat the enemy.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

France helped the American colonial armies defeat the British.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead,the philosopher: "The careful shielding of a university from the activities of the world around us is the best way to chill interest and to defeat progress.

哲学家：,“大学小心翼翼地将我们,与外界活动隔开,这样最容易打击学习兴趣，阻碍学习进步。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It also says that a truce will allow the rebels to recover from the devastating defeat they have suffered in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

In any war, particularly in this kind of war, reconciliation is something that typically happens very few wars end with total victory or total defeat, usuallly war ends with the parties get tired of or weakened enough.

在任何形式的战争，尤其是这样的战争中，和解很普遍,很少有战争是以全面胜利或者全面失败结束的，通常情况都是两方都疲惫不堪,被战争严重削弱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

This is the largest single group allowed to go home since a military campaign to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels ended this May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But despite this enormous concession and this realization, Satan is still justified, I think, in his cynical demystification of God's behavior before the defeat of the rebel angels.

尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变，但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝行为,冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This week,a probe by the European Union found Sri Lanka in breach of human rights laws during the military campaign to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Joshua 12:10 reports the defeat of the king of Jerusalem.

约书亚书》第12章10节讲述耶路撒冷国王的失败。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said the coalition effort to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan will be costly and require great commitment, but that it will succeed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

He's referring to the Tyranny of the Thirty that existed after the Athenian defeat.

他所指的是三十暴君,成立于雅典兵败之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Admiral Mullen acknowledges , that it may take years to fully defeat the Afghan insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The Egyptian magicians who are initially able to mimic some of the plagues that are brought on by God--they are quickly bested, and Yahweh's defeat of the magicians is tantamount to the defeat of the gods of Egypt.

埃及的巫师最初只会模仿,上帝制造的瘟疫，巫师们随后就被打败了，耶和华战胜了巫师相当于,打败了埃及的众神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In a report published last week, the United Nations says that 2,800 civilians had died in recent weeks, as the army pushed to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

President Obama,in late March, outlined a comprehensive plan to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in order to bring security to Afghanistan and to construct a civil infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

So you can see that the trial of Socrates the little speech that you have read takes place in the shadow of military defeat of resistance of conspiracy and betrayal.

所以你可以看到苏格拉底的审判,你们所读到的简短演说,发生时的场景是笼罩在军事败北,抵抗，阴谋与背叛的阴影之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said the time had come to re-take the country from al-Shabab and urged parliament members and Somali citizens to assist the government in efforts to defeat the militants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta expressed his government's support for U.S.Army General Stanley McChrystal's recommendation that President Barack Obama send more troops to help defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The government says the number is no more than 10,000 and its troops are taking all precautions to avoid harming the innocent as they make the final push to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"So whatever needs to be done, needs to be done." Experts warn that no matter what steps are taken to ensure safety, terrorists will adapt and craft new ways to defeat the security measures.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He called the runoff and the period afterward when a new government is formed a "turning point" in the effort to defeat the extremists and deliver good government and economic development to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We cannot stop terrorism or defeat the ideologies of violent extremism when hundreds of millions of young people see a future with no jobs,no hope and no way ever to catch up to the developed world,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06