They had lost the Civil War. Now much of their power was gone, and they were suffering.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In other words, in his propaganda, Augustus basically said, "I'm not a king, I'm just another senator, and I'm giving the Senate and the people all their power back."

换句话说，在奥古斯都的宣传中，他声称“我不是国王，我只是普通元老院议员，我将权力交还元老院及人民手中“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce competition on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

So, between 1650 and 1750, and this is right out of what you're reading, the rulers of continental Europe, of the biggest states extended their power.

所以从1650年到1750年这段时期,这正好与你们阅读的内容一致,欧陆上,统治者们扩张了他们的势力

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They would lose their power over the person's physical health.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Since the connection with the poker chips is established through classical conditioning, sooner or later by that logic the poker chips would lose their power to serve as reinforcers.

因为与扑克筹码有关的联结,是通过经典条件作用建立的，所以按照这种逻辑,扑克筹码迟早会失去强化物的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They began using their power to become rich.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It would destroy much of their power.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Such men have no other rule, but that of force and violence," listen to this, "So may be treated as beasts of prey those dangerous and noxious creatures that will be sure to destroy to you " if you fall into their power", so kill them first.

这种人除强力和暴力的法则之外，没有其他法则“,注意这里，“因此可以被当作猛兽，危险和有害的动物看待,要落在它们的爪牙之内,就一定会遭到毁灭，所以先下手为强。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But businesses can also abuse their power.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Well, the people who the Romans called barbarians destroyed the Western empire and it also the destroyed the power of the emperors and their efforts to impose religious and political conformity under imperial control.

那么,被罗马人称作野蛮人的民族,摧毁了西方帝国的同时也摧毁了,君主权力,以及通过王权实施,政教合一的种种努力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He says drug smugglers will always be around, but that the government may have a chance to substantially reduce their power and their threat to public safety.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant, and something Socrates admits in the tenth book of the Republic, to which he himself has been highly susceptible to the enchantment of the poets.

他想剥去诗人使人着迷的力量，可苏格拉底,也在《理想国》的十册中承认，他个人,对诗人的魅力抵抗力很弱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She found they all valued their independence and many enjoyed having the power of control, though not all wanted it.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This band has carried their faith and the great inspirational and resurrective power of rock and roll with them.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

These were the qualities that had guided the Greeks for centuries and contributed to their rise to power.

这些特质几个世纪以来,领导着希腊人,并促使他们成为强权。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said it was an administration of enemies of the Union who used the president's name and power for their own purposes.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

That there's no situation that would allow human beings to take the idea of fate or the other people's lives in their own hands, that we don't have that kind of power.

世上没有任何情况允许,人类来主宰别人的命运，或决断他人的生死，我们没有那样的权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So,smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power becomes the stronger influence.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

If justice is truly in the interests of the stronger, doesn't that require some kind of knowledge, some kind of reflection on the part of those in power ? to know what is really and truly in their interest?

如果正义真是强者的利益，那难道不需要某些知识，或说以握权者的角度,反思以了解,什么才是对他们真正有利的吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They said their decision would include a statement that Congress did have power over slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Their combined observing power gives the Very Long Baseline Array the ability to see the finest details of any telescope in the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

But their territorial legislatures would not have the power to act on the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Political power blinded them to their responsibility to be honest and fair to the public.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Usually their movies dealt with finding a balance of power between their two strong characters.

VOA: special.2009.09.20