The two became friends. John Henslow suggested that Charles Darwin take the unpaid position of naturalist for a trip on the British ship H.M.S.Beagle.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Let's say you are applying for a position as a translator.

假设你正在申请一个翻译的职位。

I'm good at 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I'm going to get all the people at position 1 and half the people at position 2 for a total of 15.

我会获得所有立场1的选票,和立场2一半的选票,就是15%

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In January,the Habitat for Humanity office offered him a paying position.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A bastion is a secure position used for defense against attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

And, by the way, if you ever feel that you are in a compromising position, someone is pressuring you for information, just raise your hand and ask to be reseated.

另外，如果你觉得你在一个折中的位置，有人强迫看你的信息，只需要举起手来要求调换座位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"I call on the United Nations to provide support, for the civilized nations of the world to maintain a firm position against barbarity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

So he offers a series of arguments for that conclusion, for that position, and starting next time, we'll work our way through those arguments.

因而他给出一系列论证,来证明这个结论,证明这个立场,下节课开始,我们将讨论这些论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

President Barack Obama this week reaffirmed U.S.support for a two-state solution, countering the Netanyahu government's position.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

This is actually kind of a moderate position because it talks about government and the people sharing power here and taking responsibility for change.

这实际上是一种中立的立场,即作为分担责任的代价,政府与公民分掌权利

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Each side has a position,". He explained that Syria "may demand the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, while would demand peace for peace."

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

If there's a tie, half the voters at that position go for one of the candidates and half of them go for the other.

如果是平均,一半的选票划给其中一个候选人,另一半给另一个候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is expected very soon in Cairo." The coming 72 hours,argues Saif, is a very critical period, as both parties jockey for position and fighting intensifies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

But it's particularly true for what is otherwise a very senior position of the WHCF.

那对于办公室的,高级职位,更为如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

U.S.officials say they are in a better position to mediate and press for the resolution of difficult issues while the United States has a sizable military force in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It would be a very oddball position to take for the rest of Greek history.

那么这将是一种片面误解,希腊历史的古怪观点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Kramer says Moscow's position presents a distinct problem for President Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

He was trying to make the conservative free market position more palatable for voters as a whole, and this is the one thing which he did so.

他试图,让共和党的自由市场理念,更加容易被选民们接受，让民众买得起房就是他的做法之一。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"It is two separate issues; we clarified our position from the beginning, that this moratorium is only for 10 months and direct talks is a very important issue for both sides,not only for Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The rate and pace of change in the industry is such that it's always kind of a jump ball environment where companies are not able to hang on to a great position for a super long time.

这一行变化的速度,就是这样,总处于一种跳球环境中,公司不能,永远处于不败之地。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Where the U.K.has done it, given active support to it, if Australia wants to position itself as a financial services hub for the Asia-Pacific region, it has to,in my view, embrace Islamic financing too."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

So, this is the most general position for a particle of constant acceleration, a.

这是一个加速度为a的匀加速质点,位移的最一般的表达式

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But by continuously linking this in a public way and in taking a firm position on it, they make it much more difficult for him to move away from sites in Poland and the Czech Republic,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

So whatever 1/17th of a $1, roughly $.05 for each position away.

不论1美元的1/17是多少,大概是每个位置价值5美分

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Don't put yourself in a position where you become scapegoats for other agendas,'" He said such restraint will allow society to see through what he called the attempt by right-wing groups to reverse the progress made since the end of apartheid.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Idealism is a position that's got a very long history in philosophy and for many classes would be worth taking a fair bit of time to consider more carefully.

唯心主义这个观点,在哲学史上占据了很长一段时间,并且值得我们花几节课,时间用心解读这个观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We weren't going to be in a position to see that until we went through all the stuff we've been going over for the last couple of weeks.

我们处理了过去几周研究过的问题,才能搞清这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选