The expression was first used in the southern part of the United States to describe the use of force to win an election.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

So despite their newfound mortality, humans are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

所以，尽管人类对死亡很陌生,但它不容忽视。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

sort of changed, when I got into the work force to trying to work on, international issues.

当我进入工作社会， 我想做与国际事务有关的工作。

换专业的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The commander was to use force to oppose any attempt by Texas to seize the territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Suppose that Darth Vader uses the force, the dark side--the force of course, Darth Vader uses the dark side of the force to destroy, to turn into pea soup Luke Skywalker's brain.

假设达斯·维特使用特别手段，使用厉害的手段，他损坏的是,卢克·天行者的大脑,把卢克变成了个废物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Two weeks after the Spanish-American War began, the Army sent a small force to Cuba.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

But it's a difficult claim because even as Milton makes this claim, he manages to undermine its force.

但这是困难的，因为即便是弥尔顿做出了这一宣告，他也打算降低它所蕴含的威力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was ordered to put pressure on Johnston's force to prevent it from helping Beauregard.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

That is, you minimize potential energy and you see things falling under the force of gravity and so forthgoing to potential energy minima in conformance with this result.

换句话说，你使得势能最小化,然后发现我们关注的东西,在重力或者其他力的作用下下落,直到势能最小的地方,这和我们刚才的结果是一致的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

These professional criminals often used force to take what they wanted -- cows,horses or money.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The reason is because the predominant force at this point is going to be the attraction that's being felt between the nuclei and the electrons in each of the atoms.

这是因为这时候最主要的力,是吸引力，它来自于,其中一个原子的电子与另外一个原子的原子核之间。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And last July it added Hezbollah's military force to its list of banned organizations.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

He talks about the nobility of the poem, the force from within it being equal to the force that might be applied from without.

他认为诗歌的高贵，是指诗歌内部的力量,也可以运用到诗歌外部。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He asked Congress for permission to use military force to bring peace to Cuba.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Here, divine force reduces to brute power as it does in "The Magi" and "The Second Coming."

这儿，圣之力变成了兽之力,《东方三贤》和《第二次降临》

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So he decided to trick him. While most of his army withdrew and prepared to join Beauregard, Johnston sent a small force to attack Patterson's army.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Every force, with one exception, can be seen as a force due to direct contact with the body.

除了一个例外,其它所有力必须要和物体有直接接触

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Spain sent a large force to Cuba to crush the revolt.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

So I think that by doing that, I can't force you to hang outside of work, but I can make it so that people are more with each other and can communicate more freely.

工作之余，我不能强迫大家也在一起，但能够让他们在与同事相处的时候,感觉更舒服，交流更自由。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Brown said he expected his small force to grow much larger.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

And as a consequence, brute force methods are typically not going to work.

一些有意思的事情的规模，以某种不可思议的比例在扩大,因此，蛮力的方法已经行不通了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Within that week with support, of the body weight support, we were able to get him to stand without any help at the legs so he was generating enough force to bear his body weight."

VOA: special.2011.06.01

But with the revolution of democracy in Athens, which also spread then to other Greek cities, partly because Athens did what George Bush tried to do in Iraq, they tried to force democracy on other Greek cities around the Eastern Mediterranean also.

但随着雅典民主革命的进行，这场革命随后传到了其他希腊城市，原因之一，类似小布什在伊拉克的计划，雅典企图把民主制度,推行到地中海东部的其他希腊城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But the naval blockade remains in force to prevent weapons smuggling to the ruling Palestinian militant group Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Multiple personality cases force us to address the question of what is a self.

多重人格的案例,又迫使我们把问题转向什么是自我

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I want you guys to understand I will never hesitate to use force to protect the American people or our vital interests.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

It's a violation of people's liberty for the government to force everyone whether they want to or not to put aside some earnings today for the sake of their retirement.

这侵犯了人们的自由,因为政府强迫所有人，不管愿不愿意,都得储蓄一部分当前收入，留到退休时用。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In his first days in office, he signed an order to do so, and appointed a task force to look into details.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Because it's identified with the Spanish empire, with Spain, which not only wanted to extract taxes and to extract taxes and other revenue from its most prosperous province, but wanted to force people to remain Catholic.

因为天主教是与西班牙帝国联系在一起的,西班牙不仅从这个最富有的省份,榨取税收和其他收入,还想强迫人民保持天主教信仰

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选