But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

or if it's over a long period of time and it's an ongoing situation that you want to get rid of.

或者是一件持续了很久的事，你特别想摆脱它。

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So, you can imagine what happens as it gets deposited into your bones, which is not the ideal situation after a long day in the lab.

所以你可以想象,当它碰到你的骨头时候会如何，当你在实验室,呆了一整天后这样可不太好。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It's a very complicated situation because the kind of economic risks that we face are difficult for most people to understand.

一个很复杂的情况是,我们所面临的经济风险,很难被大众完全理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it may be the case that it's something like a situation in which over the course of the previous stanza, Milton has actually usurped the role of the muse and has begun providing something like his own inspiration.

情况也可能是这样的,在之前的那一段里，弥尔顿确实用了缪斯这一角色,并且开始用他自己的一些灵感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it also reflects a specific literary situation.

但是也反映了一种具体的文学现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It turns out, to a tremendous degree, and you could imagine yourself in that situation, they choose this one, the one that wasn't the one they turned down.

结果发现，非常大的程度上，你们也可以想象实验对象是你自己，他们选了这一粒，不是他们第一次没选的那粒。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If it were all the things that it's not, or if it were identical to all the things that somehow or another it's not, then I would be in a very difficult situation because I wouldn't have any means of knowing it in particular.

如果一件事就是它自身的反面，或者和其他的事物没有区分之处,那么我们，就很难认识它,因为我们没有办法认识它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a very easy, very direct, not at all impolite way to express your desires in any situation.

这是个非常简单而直接的句型，用这样的句型在各种情形下表达你的愿望也不会显得不礼貌。

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Let's take the situation where we take a violin string and we pluck it.

让我们设想这样一个情景,我们拿着小提琴的弦拉直它。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And the third explicate purpose, I think we probably all agree with, is that school environment creates a situation where students can learn together, where they can learn from each other, so it creates a community of learners.

我想第三个表面目标，大家可能都会赞同，就是学校,为学生营造了一个，共同相互学习的场所，即创造了学习者共同体。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

What does it mean to grow up a Muslim in that situation?

穆斯林在那种环境中成长意味着什么？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

As we come back in to this, I think we've got a situation where the piano keeps playing the four-note motive, the part like he was building it up for tension.

回到这里,我想情况是这样的,钢琴一直弹奏着四音节的动机,这个部分像是钢琴在制造紧张气氛

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, now, the defenders have to do it, in a perfect situation, I am marching towards their corn crop, grain crop, at the time just before the grain is going to be harvested.

因此被侵方就要做出反应,制定完美的方案,我在庄稼即将成熟之前,会去掠夺他们的庄稼

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So I think it's a slightly different situation.

所以我认为这两种情况略有不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Use it to express your statement or understanding of a situation or of a person.

你可以用它来表达你对一种情况或者是一个人的评价与理解。

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