By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But despite this enormous concession and this realization, Satan is still justified, I think, in his cynical demystification of God's behavior before the defeat of the rebel angels.

尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变，但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝行为,冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

All Southerners who try to express themselves in art are very much aware that they are party to a defeat."

所有希望藉由艺术的方式,表达自身的南方人都很清楚,他们是战败的一方"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

So you can see that the trial of Socrates the little speech that you have read takes place in the shadow of military defeat of resistance of conspiracy and betrayal.

所以你可以看到苏格拉底的审判,你们所读到的简短演说,发生时的场景是笼罩在军事败北,抵抗，阴谋与背叛的阴影之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

You know, one famous tactic is--if you have an infantry force coming forward, you send tanks in it to break up the line of the infantry, so that you can defeat the infantry in that way.

最有名的战术是,如果有敌方步兵逼近,你把坦克派过去,破坏他们的步兵阵型,以这种策略对付步兵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The treaty was defeated. The defeat ended Wilson's dream of American membership in the League of Nations.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

In any war, particularly in this kind of war, reconciliation is something that typically happens very few wars end with total victory or total defeat, usuallly war ends with the parties get tired of or weakened enough.

在任何形式的战争，尤其是这样的战争中，和解很普遍,很少有战争是以全面胜利或者全面失败结束的，通常情况都是两方都疲惫不堪,被战争严重削弱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Other wishes included working for a nuclear-free Korea and to defeat extremists in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

They are what he has to work with, even though they are what defeat him in his effort to make sense of this experience with Magda.

他必须使用它们，尽管就是这些词语使,他失败了，无法传神表达和Magda的经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.20

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The defeat not only ended British demands for territory in New England.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The Indians gave the army its worst defeat in almost a century.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

He wanted to defeat communism in East Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

If al Qaeda has moved to Pakistan, what will these troops in Afghanistan add to the effort to defeat al Qaeda?

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

More than seven months after the election, Norm Coleman came before reporters at his home in St.Paul,Minnesota to concede defeat.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

"Well,this is critical," "The risk of defeat goes up during this time because you have got, in essence,a political campaign.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

In a statement issued Monday, President Obama promised to work with Senator Dodd to defeat any efforts to weaken the bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"We defeated you in Swat and Malakand,". "And the brave soldiers and officers of the Pakistani army will defeat you in Waziristan."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

What is really meant by the term defeat, in the parlance of conventional military aims, when facing a shadowy global terrorist network?,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The F-22 is what experts call an "air superiority" fighter, designed to defeat enemy jets in mid-air battles.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the president said, the United States is determined to defeat al-Qaida and extremist forces.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

It also says that a truce will allow the rebels to recover from the devastating defeat they have suffered in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

But the drive for health-care reform ran headlong into opposition Republicans eager to regain their political footing after suffering defeat in the 2008 election.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29