The methods of defense had improved much more than the methods of attack.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

be that with the Department of Defense or the State Department,

在国防部或者国务院，

肯尼迪学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The Department of Defense provided financial support for the competition.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

A lot of defense mechanisms involve taking a desire and turning it.

很多的防御机制都涉及欲望和欲望的转换。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Even though the Department of Defense is exempt from the budget freeze, it is not exempt from budget common sense."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

So you want to think about his hoplite, when he has everything on and when the shield is in place, again let me sort of try to demonstrate this, he ought to be covered by some kind of defense from head to toe.

所以你们可以想象这样一个情景,一名士兵全副武装,盾甲齐备,我还是演示一下吧,他从头到脚,应该算是武装到牙齿了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He says agents working at airports, seaports and border crossings are often the first line of defense for victims.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

All right. So with this said, it's probably time to say something in defense of the author.

好了，这么说来，差不多是时候,为作者的权威辩护了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The Internet has a unique meaning for us." "It's the last line of defense for freedom of speech in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

And the relay had closed on the poor creature, crushing it to death. The defense department didn't care about the loss of a moth.

可怜的虫子碾死了，国防部门并不关心,一个虫子的死活。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said as many as 100 Guantanamo detainees may be transferred to U.S.facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But at the end of the day, he also essentially made a property argument or a property defense of slavery.

但是在最后,他也做了一个产权本质的争论,或奴隶制的财产辩护

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy,James Miller, says there will be major developments during the next few years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Hobbes does not praise vigilance in defense of liberty and he denounces all efforts to resist the government.

霍布斯并非要,赞扬人民维护自由的警觉态度,而是要谴责那些反抗政府的徒劳之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"MRAPs are lifesavers," That is the Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter But,he explains, the MRAPs did not work so well in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Who would speak here in defense of Locke or make sense, find a way out of this predicament?

谁愿意为洛克辩护,或帮他摆脱这个困境？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But on the advice of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and senior military leaders, President Obama decided that no more are needed for national defense.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

And Milton's defense of controversy seems in a lot of ways continually to be slipping in to something like a defense of poetry, or certainly a defense of his own poetic practice.

弥尔顿对于论战的辩护似乎在某种程度上持续地,渐渐变为对诗歌的辩护，或是理所当然地变为对自己诗歌的尝试的辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One of the leaders of the Obama strategy review team, Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, says expectations of a more limited strategy were based on a misunderstanding.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

A good example of that is Pollan's book, In Defense of Food, that you started reading now.

以鲍兰的著作《为食物辩护》为例,这本书你们已经开始读了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In his 2,200-word retirement request General Sarath Fonseka says he was misled about his promotion this year to chief of defense staff, finding that he had "basically no authority."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

They were--their very presence there, that's where they lived, but their defense of Paris reflects tensions between urban France and conservative rural France.

他们是,他们曾经在那里生活,这就是他们生活的地方,他们的巴黎保卫战反映了,城市居民和保守的郊区居民紧张的关系

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Steve Henry,Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

You can pick out words that are identical. The purpose of the law is to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty."

你可以找出完全相同的话，法律的目的是,“树立正义，保障国内的安宁，建立共同的国防,增进全民福利和确保我们自己及我们後代,能安享自由带来的幸福“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"There are no two people in government who appreciate the gravity of the decisions that are being discussed and that will ultimately be made than the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

So, we can think about what would happen if we're on his thesis defense, we're on his thesis committee, we would need to think of some pretty mean, hard, nasty questions that's what happens when you defend your thesis.

所以，我们可以设想一下,如果我们在他的论文答辩会上,担任论文委员会的成员，那么会发生些什么，我们会想一些非常严厉的,冷酷无情的，险恶的问题,那也是你们在论文答辩时,会遇到的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ugandan Minister of Defense, Crispus Kiyonga, said the African Union force, composed of 2,590 Ugandan troops and 1,600 from Burundi, has so far been able to defend the transitional government's state house, Mogadishu port and airport, but said reinforcements to al-Shabaab have created a difficult situation.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

She speaks of the necessary unity of body and soul, which for her entails a defense of the body, defending, as she does, its knowledge and its goodness.

她说道身体心灵结合的必要性，这对她来说需要保卫其身体，为身体的知识与美好抗击。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's important to realize--as you read the dialogue, it becomes fairly apparent-- that there isn't so much any defense of the belief in the soul.

值得注意的是,当你们读这篇对话时,会发现里面并没有,多少篇幅很明显地,论证灵魂的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选