Evidence shows that extended periods of cortisol in the body weakens bones, damages nerve cells in the brain and weakens the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

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

Trotsky's Literature and Revolution is a brilliant book, an attack on many things and a defense of certain other things, but in particular and very painfully an attack on the formalists.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学与革命非常精彩，它攻击了许多当时的理论，同时也维护了一些，但是它特别猛烈地攻击了形式主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

America's most famous lawyer, Clarence Darrow, became the leader of Scopes' defense team.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

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

That was good news for the large and growing segment of the U.S.defense establishment and defense industry devoted to missile defense.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

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

"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

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

Members of al-Zaidi's 25-member defense team had asked for the charges to be dismissed, arguing President Bush was never in danger.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And then there's the whole vast category of racial defense and justification of slavery.

随后有大篇幅的种族辩护,以及奴隶制合法化的阐述

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The head of Italy's civil defense department, Guido Bertolaso, says much has been done over the past 12 months.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

But the same challenge could be put to this part of Mill's defense.

但穆勒的这番辩护面临着同样质疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates is among a list of several top Washington officials who are visiting Israel this week.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Milton continues his defense of what he calls the poet's task.

弥尔顿继续为他所谓的诗人任务做辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The ministers will also hold talks on new areas of cooperation with Russia,and the new U.S.approach to missile defense.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Let's hear first from the defense of Dudley and Stevens.

先听听为达德利和斯蒂芬斯作出的辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Russia has offered some cooperation on missile defense in the past, but has resisted the kind of system U.S.officials have proposed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

You'll note -- and there's no reason you need to read more of this, but the Hughe edition only includes a small portion of the actual pamphlet So this treatise as a whole is Milton's defense of these six Presbyterian ministers who wrote a treatise criticizing the authoritarian structure of the English church.

你们会注意到，没有理由你们要读更多这些内容，但休斯版只选录了小册子的一部分,所以这个论文整体来说就是,弥尔顿对五个长老部长的辩护,回击一篇批判英国教会的独裁机构的论文。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized North Korea Saturday for recklessly pursuing nuclear and missile capabilities while many of its people starved.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Misabiko's African Association for the Defense of Human Rights receives grants from the U.S.-based National Endowment for Democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

The $10-billion U.S.missile defense program involves a combination of systems designed to detect and intercept missiles coming from short,medium and long distances.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Sri Lanka's defense minister, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, is rejecting the cease-fire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

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

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Iran is moving quickly toward the "point of no return."

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

At the U.S.Defense Department, spokesman Bryan Whitman said there is always concern that the use of force by the military could lead to reprisals.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

But Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov recently said 90 percent of Russia's military technology is outdated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

The late president's son and former defense minister has both the best-financed campaign, the backing of security services, and the electoral infrastructure of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates had only this to say today about the capture of 23-year-old U.S.Army Private Bowe Bergdahl and the video the Taliban apparently forced him to make.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20