In a situation where, let's say, female genital cutting is going on and some people perpetuate on theological grounds.

比如说，女性割礼,这种仪式仍在进行,有些人一味地强调神学的地位。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Another situation where you could ask a "Can" question is when you're calling a friend on the telephone.

使用“Can”问句的另一种语境是在你与朋友打电话的时候。

Can 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There, Newton doesn't tell you what forces are going to be acting on a body in a given situation.

在式子里,牛顿没有告诉你,在给定条件下,有哪些力,作用在物体上

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In many ways, psychologist-- social psychologist for sure-- was sponged by a series of research that was done on the power of the situation, but it was mostly the negative power of the situation.

在很多方面，心理学家-,肯定地说是社会心理学家-,都会被在情境之下完成的,一系列研究所影响，但多数是消极的情境。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.

某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If we didn't have financial arrangements, then the people near the impact would be in a terrible economic situation and the people on the other side would be much better off.

如果我们没有进行财务安排，那么受到冲击的人,就会陷于可怕的经济状况中,而地球另一边的人们,就会好得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And that, I think, we have to understand as being because of his function in the situation, namely there is a multi-city invasion of Troy being carried on by these Mycenaean Greeks.

基于这个问题,我们先要明白,他的地位以及所起的作用,许多迈锡尼的希腊城邦联合起来,对特洛伊发起进攻的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I've got to find them by experimenting, by putting other bodies and seeing how they react and then finding out what's the force that acts on a body when it's placed in this or that situation.

我得通过实验找出这些力,我会增加其它物体,观察其反应,求出当它处在这种或者那种情况下时,作用在物体上的力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选