If the Union force attacked before Stonewall Jackson got into position, Lee could not possibly hold it back.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And so, he attempts to defend this position, justify it to his disciples who are worried that it may not be true.

所以,他试图捍卫他的观点,并试图说服,那些怀疑这一点的学生们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says the ruling will not change his country's position.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

So not only was he choosing a position close to the Conservatives: he was choosing exactly their position.

他不只是选了一个临近保守派的立场,他选的就是一个保守派的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

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

(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

Not the value of the position.

不是位置的值。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Mr.Brown is still officially Prime Minister of Britain, but Travers says he is not in a strong position.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

language, my language ] -what I say and what I think in language--speaks true.] That's the position taken up, not at all the same thing as saying what's out there doesn't exist -nothing to do with that.

那就是，语言，我的语言，说的是真话,这里的语言是指我所说的，以及我用语言所思考的],就是那个立场，与说那里什么东西不存在是完全不同的,与那个没有任何关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Mustafa,who edits al-Ahram's Democracy magazine, says the position,taken in 1983, is not in keeping with national interests.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

If that protein is an enzyme then you've and you've switched it from an 'off' position where it's not catalyzing a reaction to an 'on' position where it is, you've changed the biochemical state of the cell, you've changed the chemical reactions that can occur within the cell, and you've changed its behavior.

如果这种蛋白是一种酶的话,你就能够将酶从无催化作用的静息态,激活至能催化反应的激活态,你改变了细胞的生化状态,也改变了细胞内发生的化学反应,改变了细胞的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Georgetown professor Robert Lieber says he is not surprised the White House may be shifting its position.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

The rate and pace of change in the industry is such that it's always kind of a jump ball environment where companies are not able to hang on to a great position for a super long time.

这一行变化的速度,就是这样,总处于一种跳球环境中,公司不能,永远处于不败之地。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Congress should stand up and take a position that we are not going to tolerate this!."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

First of all, I found secretary Rumsfeld a very easy person to deal with in a sense that he's very professional, very strict, very honest, not the kind of guy who, you know, take a different position, try to around behind your back. If he's going to stab you, he's going to stab you in the chest.

首先，我发现拉姆斯菲尔德秘书长,是很容易打交道的人,我指的是他非常专业，非常严格，非常诚恳，不像那类人，因为观点立场不同,就从你背后放冷箭,如果他想杀了你，也是从正面进攻。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He spoke through an interpreter. "Not only is our country worried, but we have already expressed time and again our position against an arms race.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

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

We discussed how the position of the Obama administration has not changed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

As I say, the dualist position, as we're understanding it, is not a view that says there are only minds, there are no bodies.

前面已经谈到,二元论,就我们的理解,并不认为只有心灵而没有肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the signals about the Iranian position on the deal are not so positive and that could negatively affect the upcoming P5+1 meeting in Geneva.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

If harmony really is invisible, and harmony really can be destroyed, that invisible things can be destroyed, even the soul is nothing like you know, that's not a good analogy for thinking of the physicalist position, have you? So what?

如果和声真的无形，而和声真的可以毁灭，那么无形的东西可以毁灭，即使灵魂不同于和声,如果从物理学家的观点来看,这不是个好的类比，那又如何？

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

A candidate could say during an election that "I'm a moderate candidate, I'm at position 5" but you might not believe him or her.

一个候选人在整个大选中可能说,我是个中立的候选人,我的立场是5,但你不一定就相信他/她的说法

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选