Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?

为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

you are going up against the most, whole population trying to get the same job even if it's a dishwashing job.

你要和多数人竞争，因为所有人都在努力找工作，哪怕只是个洗碗的工作。

美国的失业情况 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And so what happens when we remove these stops is that the piston slams up against the next pair of stops.

把挡板移开后活塞会,向上移动直道第二个挡板处。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So I've sort of just spread out what we have as the second row here, graphed against the ionization energy.

所以我将第二行的情况,在这里展了，纵坐标是电离能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Frost is writing against the Romantic idea that poetry is written in repose, received passively as inspiration.

弗罗斯特不是浪漫主义这一派,浪漫主义是休闲时写的诗歌，被动地作为灵感接受。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So compare the front of this list which is 4 2 against the front of this list which is 2.

因此比较这个列表中的4和4,这个列表中的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Actually he gained power in Rome mainly by military might, by kind of making the Senate nervous and winning a few battles, and that was against the law.

事实上他在罗马提升势力，是由于强大军事实力，而且赢了几场硬仗战争，让元老院感到不安，这是违反法律的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The city of Amsterdam grows up not only as part of this victorious struggle against the Spanish armies.

阿姆斯特丹的成长不仅仅是,反抗西班牙军队胜利的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Then we're going to compare my payoff from choosing 1 against the other candidate's payoff from choosing 1.

我们来计算当对手选立场1时,我也选立场1获得的收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Now obviously, the struggle takes place against the backdrop of completely undisciplined and unsystematic thinking which Eikhenbaum identifies as the typical thinking of the universities, of the academy.

很明显，这话时针对当时,艾肯鲍姆认为,无序混乱的,学术界而说的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In either case, they regard him as surreptitiously taking the side of the people against the nobles.

二者都把他看作是秘密地,站在人民的立场上反抗权贵的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Roughly speaking, about 1200 B.C., we hear of general attacks that are going on around the Mediterranean against the various civilizations of which we know.

大致说来,大概在公元前一千二百年,爆发了以地中海周围,我们所知的各种文明为攻击对象的,全面战争

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As opposed to rationally stepping up when something appears relatively attractive and overweighting and then leaning against the wind by selling something that's performed well.

对比理性行事,适度增持有吸引力的资产,而后逆风而行,将资产卖出,即使资产业绩良好

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There is the slur against the academy here: lazy college professors.

这也有点诋毁学术界的意思：,懒教授。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Won't help me against other bacteria, but only against the one that I've got.

但对其他细菌却不起作用,只能抵抗我感染到的这种细菌

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

By now the cabin boy, Parker, is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in the corner because he had drunk seawater against the advice of the others and he had become ill and he appeared to be dying.

现在派克正蜷缩在救生艇的角落,因为他不顾众人劝阻饮用了海水,他生病了，而且似乎快死了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选