Clay answered that no power on earth could force him to vote to establish slavery where it did not exist.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Newton is not going to come and tell you what force the spring will exert when it's pulled by some amount.

牛顿不会过来告诉你,弹簧被拉伸一定量时会产生多大的力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I think if we force people to vote, it would not lead to a good result.

如果我们采取强制投票，结果也不会多好。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Anderson then told the southerners, "If you do not shell us to pieces, hunger will force us out in a few days."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And as a consequence, brute force methods are typically not going to work.

一些有意思的事情的规模，以某种不可思议的比例在扩大,因此，蛮力的方法已经行不通了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

White families who did not want to live near them repeatedly tried to force them to move away.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

If you look at the electrical force, the force of electricity, proton and electron or something, it's not proportional to the mass of either object.

如果你考察电作用力,即电现象产生的力,质子啊,电子啊,或者其它什么东西,这种力不和物体的质量成比例

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Yet he thought that slavery would die out naturally over time -- and that outsiders should not force southerners to end slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

It's a violation of people's liberty for the government to force everyone whether they want to or not to put aside some earnings today for the sake of their retirement.

这侵犯了人们的自由,因为政府强迫所有人，不管愿不愿意,都得储蓄一部分当前收入，留到退休时用。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Because it's identified with the Spanish empire, with Spain, which not only wanted to extract taxes and to extract taxes and other revenue from its most prosperous province, but wanted to force people to remain Catholic.

因为天主教是与西班牙帝国联系在一起的,西班牙不仅从这个最富有的省份,榨取税收和其他收入,还想强迫人民保持天主教信仰

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

An estimated seventeen percent of the labor force either lacks a job or is not working enough to pay all the bills.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Not only does the Apology force Socrates to defend himself before the city of Athens but Socrates puts the city of Athens on trial and makes it defend itself before the high court of philosophy.

苏格拉底自辩篇》不仅迫使苏格拉底,在雅典城前自辩,他也迫使雅典全城受审,而且让它自辩于,哲学的最高法院面前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He could not hold them. He began to hit his hands with all his force against his legs.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Well, one of the things wars did, most people not seemed to have noticed, is that it took 12 million men out of the civilian labor force and put them in uniforms.

战争做的事情，大部分人似乎没有意识到，就是战争让1200万人,加入军队,穿上军服。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But the force that was guiding her would not permit her to act on such a thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The fact that you don't need a force for it to move forever at a given speed in a given direction, that's not obvious, because in daily life you don't see that.

对于物体不需要力的作用就能保持,确定的速度和方向持续运动这一事实,它并非显而易见,因为在日常生活中你看不到这种情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Robert E.Lee could not understand why the Union force had returned to Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

He believed that negotiation,not force, was the way to solve the problem.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

Tessionniere claims that since it could not fire many workers, France Telecom created miserable working conditions to force them to leave.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

O'Hanlon says even though the aim of modern day terrorists is to force a change in policy, so far,the tactics do not work.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Feinberg does not have the authority to force the banks to return any of the money.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"It is not a magic bullet, but it will at least force the Iranians to think twice about continuing to flout the will of the international community.,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"Because as I speak to you, Nigeria is not yet fully ready, so I hope some of this will be passed on to Nigeria to force them to be ready in time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

On the other hand Wal-Mart has gone through a tremendous effort over the last couple of years to integrate environmental sustainability into not only its own practices but to force this into the supply chain."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12