This is when a student gets experience in a position that may or may not be paid.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

because I put myself in a position to meet a lot more interesting people in LA.

因为当时我想接触那些有意思的人。

旧金山和洛杉矶的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The W.H.O.says the international community is now in a position to defeat malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

But because of those discoveries, we are now in a position to appreciate the monumental achievements of these early civilizations, these earliest civilizations.

由于那些考古发现，我们现在才能欣赏到,那些早期文明的不朽成就，最早的文明。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Speech) He says it is important to stabilize finances but the government is not in a position to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Once we get clear about what the relevant metaphysical glue is, we'll be in a position to start asking: Could this happen or not?

一旦我们知道了,形而上粘质是什么，我们就会问：,这会发生吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I do not think we are there yet,". "I would hope that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but there has to be one first.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

So, a protein that has tyrosine and it has tyrosine in a position such that it's on the outside of the protein and accessible to chemical reaction can be phosphorylated.

所以,一种蛋白质中含有酪氨酸,并且该酪氨酸位于,像蛋白质的外侧这样的位置,这样才能够发生磷酸化反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

With the success of The Dark Knight we were in a position where the studio was prepared to put a lot of faith in us and trust us to really do something special."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

In each of these cases the figure who stands ab extra, from outside, is an observer, an observer looking in and interpreting the action before him and an observer in a position presumably to make some kind of moral judgment on the action taking place.

在每个例证中，处在明喻本身之外的人，都是一个观察者，一个,向内展望并且解说他眼前的进展的观察人,一个似乎是要对发生的事情作出某些道德评论的观察人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Commonly,it's a threat against their family back in their home country and it's used to put that person in a position where they feel compelled to provide labor or service in the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

But luckily for us, there's a classical equation of motion that will, in fact, describe how the electron and nucleus change position or change their radius as a function of time.

但幸运的是，有一个,经典方程描述了电子和核子,位置或者它们直接的距离是,如何随时间变化的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We have always offered this. If they were to help us help them, then the secretary-general would be in a position to go all out on the sanctions issue, humanitarian support, even reconstruction and development.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

It tells you that any attempt to try to specify, to localize the position of an electron in such a system is futile.

这说明你试着任何尝试关于，使一个电子在这样一个系统中,确定其明确的位置是没有意义的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"So we are only now beginning to be in a position to have the assets in place and the strategy or the military approach in place to begin to implement the strategy and this is going to take some time,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

They were in a very risky position because subprime loans were already recognized as being risky.

这给银行带来极大风险,因为次级债早已被认为具有高风险

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

And a guy named--a Republican named John Boehner won this position in quite a heated battle.

共和党一个叫约翰的家伙,在白热化的争斗中赢得了席位。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

In particular, if the other candidate were to choose position 1, I would get a higher share of the vote choosing 2 than I would have done if I had chosen 3.

如果对手选择立场1,我选立场2会比选立场3,得到更多的票数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Naturally as a finance minister my advise to the governor of RBI would be that if you are in a position keeping in view the availability of the foreign exchange you buy that , and from that perspective it has been bought,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Once a week we assembled the homeland security team which meant in the later part of the administration The Secratary of Homeland Security, 911 which was a position was created in the year after 911.

每个星期,还会组织一次国土安全组的人开会,意味着会议的第二部分,会见国土安全部部长，这个职位是在,之后的一年才创立的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"It sure looks like the way they are suppressing speech, the way they are suppressing crowds, they way in which people are being treated that there is some real doubt about I do not think we are in a position to say,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

The United States is not in a very powerful position anymore,

美国没有那么强大了，

担忧未来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"It will also I think send a clear message that our goal here ultimately has to be for the Afghan people to be able to be in a position to provide their own security, and that the United States cannot be engaged in an open-ended commitment,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

But I don't think we're yet in a position to say that.

但我认为现在就那样说还为时尚早

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

People infected with the virus walk in a bent-over position because of the severe pain in the joints.

VOA: special.2009.04.13

It was the ideal embraced by priests and nuns, and it was the ideal to which all Christians theoretically at least were in a position to aspire to.

这是牧师和修女们所拥护的理想，这也是基督教徒们理论上,至少是理应渴望的理想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But now that we're here,we're in a position perhaps to raise the question, should we be asking what it takes to survive?

现在我们必须想要提出的问题应该是，要怎样才能生存？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选