Imagine a swimmer in water over his head You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

If you have a white wall, that's when we did Zen meditation, it's easier if you're just facing a wall.

如果家中有面空墙，我们可以进行坐禅，面对空墙会相对容易。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So first question: are we facing a period of disruptive technology?

所以第一个问题是：,我们正面临技术颠覆吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Unlike Taylor, Fillmore truly believed that the nation was facing a crisis.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

I'm saying that kind of jokingly but I think you are facing a rather if you're out in the job market you are facing a difficult economy

我或许有些开玩笑的说了这些话,但是我认为你们正面临着,如果你们没在找工作,你们就面临着困难的经济状况

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I immediately knew I was facing a terrible warrior.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The traditional answer is that These guys actually did press up against the rows in front of them And that this provided a momentum That gave the front line an advantage in beating the enemy facing them.

传统的回答是,他们实际上是在推挤前面几排友军,为其提供一种动力,使前线在与对面的敌人交战时具有优势

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Mr.Brown is facing a tight election. The Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, has topped the latest opinion polls.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The phenomena is known as "emotional contagion, where if you're facing somebody, for instance, and they're they look at you in a face of absolute rage, it is very difficult to just sit there without your own face molding in accord to their own.

这种现象就是情绪感染，例如，你看着某人，他们怒气冲冲看着你，你很难只是坐在那里,不去回应他们的愤怒。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Warren says the good news comes at a time when researchers are facing a big obstacle - limited funding.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

People who decide on dividends are facing a complicated issue.

决定分红的人们面临的是个复杂的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And facing a skeptical public, the British leader reiterated his contention that fighting in Afghanistan is necessary to keep Britain safe.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"At a time when we're fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, this would have been an inexcusable waste of money.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

What is really meant by the term defeat, in the parlance of conventional military aims, when facing a shadowy global terrorist network?,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

In addition to health care, the Obama administration appears to be facing a growing problem with domestic support for the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The Afghan forces are now facing a Taliban that appears to be moving beyond their traditional strongholds in the southern part of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Analysts blame the sharp increase on the turbulent national elections and a re-emerging Taliban facing a surge of U.S.troops, determined to take the provinces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Those rebels,driven from Uganda into neighboring Congo, are now facing a joint operation by Ugandan defense forces and troops from the Central African Republic.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Riedel says U.S.and NATO troops are facing a syndicate of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan consisting of different groups like the Taliban and al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The current government in Kabul appears to be facing a more immediate threat,however, not from the Taliban but due to concerns about its own credibility.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

"The problem with resistance means that we might be facing a situation where our currently, mostly susceptible epidemic is replaced in a decade or two by mostly multi-drug resistant disease,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

In fact most global automakers have signaled that they are going ahead with plans to open new factories in India at a time when many of them are facing a serious slump in their home countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

But this year the Roman Catholic Church is facing a growing crisis amid a flood of accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests over the decades and allegations of a cover up by senior clergy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

Facing a barrage of criticism for failing to get adequate justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bhopal gas leak, the government has said it needs to revisit laws pertaining to the kind of industrial disaster witnessed in Bhopal.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Many of his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Facing Cemetery Hill, the Confederates stood shoulder to shoulder in a line almost two kilometers long.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

She is standing on the front of a ship facing the strong island winds.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Now there is a new threat facing coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.10