The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

VOA: special.2011.05.29

That is to say, there's a certain set of views I hold about the issues that we'll be discussing.

那就是说，我持某一个观点,关于我们要讨论的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and I'll be able to hold a conversation with anybody really about anything.

我将能够与任何人谈任何话题。

介绍好朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A new Senate subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law plans to hold a hearing on May tenth about protecting mobile privacy.

VOA: special.2011.05.02

Look at line 119: Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs!"

看一下第119行：,妄言之口！他们甚至不知如何掌控,愚钝之人，从未经受过学识的洗礼,文艺只属于虔诚的牧人！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The last three finalists each had fifty minutes to create a tall structure to hold an egg even when shaken with earthquake force.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Why would anyone not just hold a lot of-- a really large number of stocks?

为什么人们不持有-,巨额的股票呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He decided to hold an election, but only for a territorial representative to the national Congress.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

And he couldn't hold a job.

他不能继续工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Yet a study released Thursday said men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at the four hundred largest companies in California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

High above her head, she would hold a torch of freedom to light the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Now the first law is going to hold in all of these steps, and we're going around in a cycle.

现在热力学第一定律,就蕴含在这所有的步骤里了，我们沿着这个循环走。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

So, for example, if we're to hold the time constant, this makes it a lot simpler of an equation, because what we can end up doing is actually crossing out this whole term here.

比如说，如果我们把时间,定为常数，这使得方程,大大简化，因为我们可以把,这一项划掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Drop several seeds over the surface of the pot and cover with a thin layer of vermiculite, a substance that can hold air, water and nutrients.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone even with both hands. For a foolish half minute or so there was no other words, no further speech, then "I can't talk anymore, buddy."

为了欢愉，明显是弗兰尼拿着电话,或者用双手能做的，在大约半分钟里,没有其他的话了，也没有讲话了，然后说，我不能谈论任何人，巴蒂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She announced the proposal to hold a high-level meeting on March thirty-first.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

So Sarna and other scholars hold that the patriarchal traditions are not entirely fabricated retrojections from a later period.

所以Sarna和其他学者相信，族长传统,不完全是后世臆造的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Her hands shook so badly that she could not hold a camera.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

So hold that thought a second, we'll come back to is it Clara Elise, is that right?

先保留这个说法,我们稍后再做讨论,这是克莱拉?埃莉斯的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Vermiculite is a material that can hold air, water and nutrients.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

So, now I don't want to go too deeply into this, but if you're interested in this subject get a hold of his book.

我不想过多地赘述,如果你对这个课题感兴趣,就去读这本书吧

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In any case, Democrats hold a strong majority in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

In terms of cost to institute this, the upfront cost to build classrooms, to accommodate this kind of structure, we need two classrooms that hold 170 students a piece to do this.

关于建这个项目的成本，最主要的就是搭建教室，使之适应这种教学模式，我们需要两间能装170人,的教室来上这种课。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

You cannot hold a party like the Progressive Party together.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

And let's work--we'll hear that again, but as you can see and then hold on that and then the changes came a little bit faster and faster.

我们开始吧，然后就可以再次听到了，不过就像大家可以看到，然后继续保持到,再开始有变化，变得越来越快。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The commission has numerous logistical obstacles to overcome to hold a general election in a country recovering from war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

He talks about how we can hold up a mirror to nature.

他谈到如何塑造一面能够反映自然的镜子。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Let's hold off on thinking about that question a bit further.

我们暂时不去进一步思考这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选