Republican opposition was not a surprise, with all but one rejecting the bill on grounds that it would sharply increase the federal deficit, raise insurance costs, and give the government control of the health care system.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

In a situation where, let's say, female genital cutting is going on and some people perpetuate on theological grounds.

比如说，女性割礼,这种仪式仍在进行,有些人一味地强调神学的地位。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is exactly--these are the grounds on which this new school-- one of the ways in which they argue otherwise.

新学派会有一些材料,会引起一些争论

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was held in a huge tent on the grounds of a famous house called Astor Courts overlooking the Hudson River.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

First, the historical prologue that's so central to the suzerainty treaty, grounds the obligations of Israel to Yahweh in the history of his acts on her behalf.

第一点，历史开场白在领主契约中,是必不可少的，规定了犹太人,对上帝需要履行的义务。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

On the embassy grounds a bronze statue of Winston Churchill welcomes visitors and people passing by on the street.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

On other, on other grounds You, a professional economist, do not bring your expertise to bear on this man in evaluating him?

那是站在其他的角度,你可是一名专业的经济学家呢，难道你不,利用自己专业的评价来给他加点分吗？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

We met up with them at the United States Botanic Garden on the grounds of the Capitol building.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

It's a problem if we reject the police-like authority of authors, of whom we may have a certain suspicion on those grounds, when we certainly don't feel that way about Marx and Freud.

但若我们并不喜欢马克思和弗洛伊德，那么如果我们排斥警察，就好像因为对作者有所怀疑，而排斥作者权威的话，就有问题了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I do remember walking on the college grounds and watching sail boats in the distance on the blue waters of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And new for two thousand six was a ceremony held on the grounds of the Washington Monument.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Institute opened on the grounds of what was formerly the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.

因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They will take part in sports,games and activities on the grounds of the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Obviously Tony the Tow Truck points a moral and so would be subject - to a kind of devaluation on those grounds by the New Criticism-- even though there are ways of reading Tony, as I've been suggesting, New Critic-ally.

显然《搬运车托尼》提供了一个道德的标准,新批评派对其,不会有很好的评价-,虽然，我也说过，从新批判派的角度阅读《搬运车托尼》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There are several main buildings on the grounds on the Naval Observatory.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

So, what you might say is a Socratic citizen to do, he will either be accused of being ironic and not be believed or he will simply be disbelieved if he attempts to defend himself on rational or philosophical grounds.

你可能会说，一位苏格拉底时代公民被指控的原因,可能是嘲讽和不被相信,或根本就不被信任,如果他试图,从理性或达观的立场来捍卫自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Gray said a release on compassionate grounds must be tempered with justice, the rights of the victims must always be preserved.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Indonesia agreed to accept the group on humanitarian grounds after a visit by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

There is no large public ceremony expected, and it will be held as a private event on the heavily-guarded grounds of the presidential palace.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

McKinnon's lawyer said she would review the judgment and could appeal the High Court decision to Britain's Supreme Court or European courts on humanitarian grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"Because quite often the arguments that a defense deal is essential on national security grounds then that becomes justification for shielding it from public scrutiny."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Nine thousand people are crowded the camp on the grounds of a damaged school.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Danny Jordaan says the vuvuzelas are being evaluated on an ongoing basis and that a ban is an option "if there are grounds to do so."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The documents come from an appeal against his 2001 conviction, which was dropped just before he was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds last month.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Farther out, we reach the bird nesting grounds on the barrier islands.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

His family home is an elegant two-story manor house on spacious grounds.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04