"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Okay, it still tastes good despite not having trans fats.

尽管不含反式脂肪酸,肯德基依旧美味

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.

所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Despite the Supreme Court's ruling, Klevets says she is not giving up on her dream to drive a metro train.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

David Smith So,of course,we can all agree David Smith, despite thinking he's Napoleon,is not Napoleon.

因此，显然我们能够一致同意，尽管认为自己是拿破仑，但他不是。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But,despite the excitement about the case, members of the alleged Russian spy ring did not seem to have accomplished anything.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

His popularity at the end of his term, despite what everyone would agree, whether you like Bill Clinton or not, was a big mistake with Monica Lewinsky his popularity didn't suffer very much.

任期结束时，人气很高，尽管大家都心知肚明，不管你喜不喜欢比尔·克林顿，和莱温斯基乱搞男女关系就是一个错误,但是他的人气并未因此受到很大影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mr.Obama says despite the decision to try to keep the pictures under wraps, he will not tolerate the abuse of prisoners.

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

The suggestion Plato seems to be making by making Thrasymachus blush is, despite all of his tough talk, that he's not as tough as he appears to be, as he wants to think of himself to be.

柏拉图的暗示似乎是透过,让，Thrasymachus，感到困窘，先不管他先前那些顽固的言论，展现出他其实不像表现出的那般顽固，不像像他自己认为的那样顽固。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Despite lobbying efforts by some organizations to boycott BP gasoline stations, consumers do not appear to be punishing BP.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Because the two are not identical despite massive amounts of scholarship that confuses this issue: thinks holy means pure, thinks common means impure, and it just doesn't: these are different binary oppositions. The two are not identical.

因为这俩并不完全相同,还是会有很多学者会弄混它们：,认为神圣的就是纯洁的，普通的就是不纯洁的，实则不然：,它们是不同的相对关系，它们并不完全相同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A security analyst in Lagos,Patrick Keku, says the government has not paid enough attention to security issues, despite the country's numerous crises.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

You might say,the only way to explain the behavior is to say that at some level, he really does believe his hands are dirty, despite the fact that he says they're not.

唯一的解释也许就是，在某种程度上，他确实还是相信自己的手脏的，尽管他说它们不脏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Despite a string of attacks early Sunday,mainly in Baghdad, insurgents were not able to carry out the massive strikes they had threatened.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Still, I take it--I gather--here's what I'm told-- that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics says that, despite what many of us might've otherwise believed, the fundamental laws of physics are not, in fact, deterministic.

别人告诉了我这么一个例子,量子力学的正统理论认为,尽管有很多人可能不相信,物理学的基本定律事实上也不是确定性的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says relations with most of people here are still good, and he has decided not to use bodyguards, despite tensions following the Bangkok violence.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Kohona told the Bangkok press club that despite harsh criticism of the sentencing from rights groups and the United States, the proceedings were not a sham.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

MDC supporters and activists are arrested on minor charges, while not a single ZANU-PF supporter has been arrested, despite the 150 murders of MDC supporters last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Clinton said despite the outreach to Burma, the Obama administration is not dropping human rights related sanctions, which include a virtually total U.S.trade ban against that country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The answer is that despite appearances, Cape May is not a wealthy town.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

That said,we're still not going anywhere fast." Despite an $8,000 tax incentive for first time home buyers, sales of existing homes have declined two months in a row.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

But despite that, he said 2009 will not be a good year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

He said despite the encouraging developments, the crisis is not over.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But here in Warsaw, people were waiting for only one thing -an assurance that despite scrapping Bush-era plans for an antiballistic missile shield, the U.S.had not turned its back on Central Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Recovery has not been easy despite international donations.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is not optimistic about his son's release, despite a videotape published on Friday showing for the first time that he is alive and well.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Most electoral observers believe the vote was fair despite irregularities that included security forces at polling stations, some ballot boxes not being properly sealed, and the absence of opposition representatives during some vote counting.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

And today were announcing a commitment over this next decade, which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact were announcing well spend over $10 billion on vaccines, Despite the amount of the foundations pledge, Gates says its not enough to develop all the vaccines needed in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

She gave them a chance to choose," "This is why I am here, this why so many tens of thousands of people are here, because we want to show Saylan we appreciated her, we love her and despite all the work she has done she was treated as a guilty person by the state, and we do not approve of that."

VOA: standard.2009.05.20