Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.

他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。

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That is to say brick work in high temperature furnaces, maybe tiles on the Shuttle, to resist high temperatures because of the high internal bonding.

它在能够承受高温炉的温度，例如瓷砖，能够耐受高温,因为它们有强的内部键作用。

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Monsanto expects to be ready in a few years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

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。

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He also worked in the laboratory to create new versions of wheat that could resist disease.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Tocqueville couldn't resist it, it was the thing he couldn't stop writing about in Democracy in America, and he was only observing in 1831.

托克维尔抗拒不了,这使他情不自禁的写下,《美国的民主》这部著作,他仅了解1831年的美国

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The seeds can also resist the Striga weed, a big cause of crop failures in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Now you might be able to resist them and not eat them in abundance but they're still there and the brain likes those sorts of things.

现在,你可能会抵制这类食物,不会吃太多,但是依然会吃,而且大脑喜欢这类食品

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And he worked in the laboratory to breed new wheat varieties that could resist disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

So, we should use that, but people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number and when you're advertising your return you want to make it look as big as possible.

所以我们应该用这个指标,但金融界反感使用几何平均,因为它比其他平均数都来得小,他们为自己的收益率做广告时,当然希望数字越大越好

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A visitor has to resist the urge to jump in for a swim.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

But that sense of collective liberty, the freedom to resist or invade is, in fact, even opposed to the modern idea of liberty that Hobbes proposes.

事实上，这种拥有抵抗，或是入侵他人的集体自由,与霍布斯提出的现代自由是相悖的。

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This will help the adobe resist changes in the weather and humidity.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

How could you resist a sense of change in 1820s New York?

你如何能抵制变革的意识,如在十九世纪二十年代纽约

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"We reaffirmed our commitment to strong, sustained economic growth as was articulated by the G-20 in Pittsburgh, and reaffirmed our intent to continue to expand trade and resist protectionist measures between the United States and the European Union,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22