I was looking for a safe place to defend myself, or perhaps for a way out.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Let us just say he is a person willing to stand up for and defend his family and friends.

我们可以将他归为,愿意起身捍卫,家族与朋友的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And his basic rights were seen to be absolute, for nothing must interfere with the right of each individual to defend his life, liberty, and property.

人的基本权利被视作每个个体都绝对拥有的,任何事物都无法干涉的,自卫,自由,财产的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Northern Europeans skied to hunt for food, then later to defend their countries.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

I haven't given you-- I've given you roughly the choices, the choice they're going to be for the attacker which pass to choose, and for the defender which pass to defend.

我还没有说完,我给出了大致的选择,入侵者选择从哪个途径入侵,而防卫者选择在哪里设防

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

It's never--it probably wasn't quite that easy but the invading side goes for something that the other side will have to defend and that determines when the fighting takes place.

可能不会这么简单,但当入侵方为了某一目进行侵略,被侵方就不得不防守,这就决定了战争的爆发时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Biden said the new missile plan would be enough to defend Poland and he said U.S.support for Poland remains solid.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Now, that's a very important point, because why in the world would you give a shield of the kind I am describing, for a man to defend himself, if you imagine him standing by himself anywhere, if you imagine him any distance from the rest of the guys fighting alongside of him.

这点非常关键,那就是到底为什么要将,这样一种盾牌,给士兵们使用,想象一下这个场景,这个士兵在战场的某个角落孤军奋战,与其它友军士兵相隔甚远

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

After all it's very easy to defend the rights for people to speak who you agree with.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

For instance,he does not think women should defend their country and that men should protect their homeland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

That is not our problem. They do not play, they did not defend, and they did not stop the chances for us to score,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

(...) Yigal Palmor. "This diktat is phrased in very extreme terms that try to impose rules that will make it impossible for any country to defend themselves against terror,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists is our tax dollars, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them and not lawyers to defend them."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Republicans also asserted that the nuclear revelation supports their position that President Obama acted unwisely in altering plans for a European missile shield to defend against future missile launches by Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Political experts say the stakes in the health care debate are huge,not only for President Obama, but also for congressional Democrats who will defend their House and Senate seats in next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The general also called for NATO nations to strengthen their ability to defend the alliance's home territory, in order to ease concerns among some new members in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Besides urging the Obama administration to oppose any further consideration of the Goldstone report in multi-lateral forums, or measures stemming from it, the resolution also reaffirms support for Israel's security and right to self-defense, and its right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04