But Immigration reform advocates maintain a legal path to citizenship for undocumented workers will help boost the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

He would remain a virgin in order to prepare for and to maintain this incredibly important role as an epic poet.

他想保持自己的童贞,为了准备和保持作为史诗诗人这个无比重要的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I call on the United Nations to provide support, for the civilized nations of the world to maintain a firm position against barbarity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Let's hang on for a little while longer to a set of conditions where we will maintain constant entropy, namely constant entropy and pressure.

我们先继续考虑,保持熵不变的情况，即保持熵和压强不变。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But he says a significant number of foreign troops will be needed to help establish and then maintain security in Afghanistan, possibly for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In order for life to proceed, you need to maintain a constant internal environment.

为了维持生命,人体的内环境需要保持稳定

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Schaaf says the government has been using a 2006 law, that allows for unnecessary audits and demands that NGOs maintain cumbersome and unnecessary paperwork;

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

That's what you need for a phalanx, because to maintain the integrity of the hoplite line, you can't have bumps and grooves, and trees and rivers in the way; it will break things up.

而是方阵作战所必备的条件,为了维持重装步兵队列的完整性,就不能在坑坑洼洼,有树林有河流的地方布阵,这会把方阵打散

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the military government is set to maintain tight control over the vote amid calls by Burmese political activists for the international community to boycott the election result.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth or moral development in human being, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral,ethical,or saintly people.

如果想知道心灵成长的可能性，人类价值增长或道德发展的可能性，那我认为，我们可以研究,最道德或圣洁的人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But Tarrin calls for the major industrial countries to ensure continued support to developing economies because they are unable to maintain large stimulus packages like those in the industrial world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

President Obama has said he would be willing to speak with Cuba's leaders, but would maintain the embargo as leverage to push for democratic change and an improvement in human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

The Afrikaaner Resistance Movement, know as AWB, sought to maintain white dominance in apartheid South Africa and staged bomb attacks as the country prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"In order for us to keep our home land safe, in order to maintain our way of life, in order to ensure order on the international scene, then we cannot allow vicious killers to have their way,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The coalition Civil Society Forum of Guinea says it firmly opposes the candidacy of any member of the ruling military council in the next presidential election, saying only the return to constitutional order and respect for fundamental liberties can maintain peace.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Prosecutors say he led members of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of the country's Mr.Taylor's lawyers maintain that any contact their client had with Sierra Leonean rebels ended before the jurisdiction of this court begins.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10