He says the damselfish had to find new grounds for algae after the staghorn coral disappeared.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

We certainly wouldn't have any grounds to conclude my heart is immortal, will exist forever.

我们没有任何理论根据,来断言心脏是不死的,并且将会永存

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You know of course that this is absolutely crucial to the study of the law to this day: what are the grounds for understanding the meaning of the Constitution, for example?

你们当然知道,今天这些问题对于法学研究很关键：,比如，理解宪法的,根据是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The government agreed to close a road used by whites to cross the hunting grounds.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

First, the historical prologue that's so central to the suzerainty treaty, grounds the obligations of Israel to Yahweh in the history of his acts on her behalf.

第一点，历史开场白在领主契约中,是必不可少的，规定了犹太人,对上帝需要履行的义务。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Indians fought bitterly to keep white men out of their hunting grounds.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

On other, on other grounds You, a professional economist, do not bring your expertise to bear on this man in evaluating him?

那是站在其他的角度,你可是一名专业的经济学家呢，难道你不,利用自己专业的评价来给他加点分吗？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

They had to look for new hunting grounds.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

But times have changed and they were embarrassed to give the true grounds for their objection and so they translated their arguments into utilitarian terms.

但时代不同了,她们羞于讲出反对的真实理由,就转换为功利主义形式表达反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Indonesia agreed to accept the group on humanitarian grounds after a visit by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

What grounds are there for withholding ascriptions of beliefs and desires to the computer?

剥夺电脑这些特质的,依据是什么

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When Hurricane Katrina destroyed their oyster grounds, Henry invested $30,000 of his retirement money to re-seed the beds.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

McKinnon's lawyer said she would review the judgment and could appeal the High Court decision to Britain's Supreme Court or European courts on humanitarian grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

So, what you might say is a Socratic citizen to do, he will either be accused of being ironic and not be believed or he will simply be disbelieved if he attempts to defend himself on rational or philosophical grounds.

你可能会说，一位苏格拉底时代公民被指控的原因,可能是嘲讽和不被相信,或根本就不被信任,如果他试图,从理性或达观的立场来捍卫自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

British official refuse to say on what grounds this was done, but media reports suggest his application to study at another institution was turned down because the course work there was deemed to be bogus.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Plato of course, as we know, tried to argue that we could know, that there was there were good grounds for believing the soul would continue to exist.

柏拉图，据我们所知，试图辩驳说，我们有,有理由相信,灵魂可以继续存在。

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Two hundred seventy people were killed in the attack. Opposition Scottish Labor leader Iain Gray was blunt in his criticism of Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who made the call to allow Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to leave prison and return home to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

They were opposed to change unconventional moral grounds.

她们反对改变非传统的道德基准。

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Obviously Tony the Tow Truck points a moral and so would be subject - to a kind of devaluation on those grounds by the New Criticism-- even though there are ways of reading Tony, as I've been suggesting, New Critic-ally.

显然《搬运车托尼》提供了一个道德的标准,新批评派对其,不会有很好的评价-,虽然，我也说过，从新批判派的角度阅读《搬运车托尼》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.

因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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