And in this battle contentious battle invariably the public will lose,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

My favorite example of this was a few years ago when there was a huge battle for the House majority leader.

我最喜欢的例子，几年前,白宫多数党领袖有一场大的争斗。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Sidney believed this so much in fact that when he knew himself to be dying, having been mortally wounded in a battle, he ordered that all of his own poems be burned.

西德尼深信他的这一观点,甚至当他快死的时候，也就是在战场上受了致命伤以后，他要求别人焚烧他写的全部诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In the House of Commons this afternoon, the prime minister,Mr.Churchill,said: 'What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

He will have to do battle with this temptation forever: the temptation offered by classical literature.

他将不得不永远与这种：,来自古典文学的诱惑战斗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe continue our story of the Civil War with the Battle of Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

That's good. So this game's called The Battle of the Sexes and we'll see it in various forms over the course of the semester.

没错,就叫性别大战,我们会在这学期的课程中陆续接触到的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

However, there's this great question of how far do the Greeks pursue in a hoplite battle?

但是,这里又有一个问题,希腊人在方阵战中会从战场追出多远呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But I think that this will be the last battle of the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

This is his picture of Charles V at a battle in Germany in 1648.

这是一张查理五世,在1648年德国战争中的画

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This legal battle continued for years before being settled out of court.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

And a guy named--a Republican named John Boehner won this position in quite a heated battle.

共和党一个叫约翰的家伙,在白热化的争斗中赢得了席位。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"This is where we decided to draw the battle lines." John Rogner,the assistant director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"This risk could push our forces further from the battle space, compromising our ability to bring our conventional superiority to bear.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

So, we'll just do this imaginary perfect battle.

我们来演示一下这场虚构的完美战争

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For this character - Russian physicist Ivan Vanko - the battle is about honor and respect.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's a battle of bodies and for minds on this basketball court just outside Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Professor Rais says expanding missile strikes also holds great risks for the already shaky Pakistani government, further weakened by this week's political battle over the judiciary.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

"This 30,000 against 10,000 is a conventional battle,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

"This is not a American battle;

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Clinton's comments at a joint press event with the Uruguayan leader were the highest-level expression of U.S.concern thus far about a Venezuelan arms buildup that gained momentum with an announcement this week that the South American state will buy Russian battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15