"I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

So, they would have been more vulnerable and you wouldn't have to have such a powerful bow.

所以,既然普通弓箭容易造成受伤,你就不会需要用到那么强力的弓

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Banks still are vulnerable to bank runs because they still have deposits so the system is still vulnerable and therefore the Federal Reserve has a set of reserve requirements.

银行仍然对银行挤兑敏感,因为它们仍然有存款,所以这个系统还是比较脆弱的，因此,联邦储备金有一系列的法定准备金率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The A.U.chairman said Africa is most vulnerable to climate change, despite accounting for only 3.5 percent of global greenhouse emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Okay? So when you say that what you're doing is scientific in a context of this sort, you are making yourself vulnerable.

对吧？，所以在这种情况下你说自己所做的是科学的时,你就使自己站不住脚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A look at some of the major natural disasters in recent years makes clear that health facilities are vulnerable.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

If I strike you in a vulnerable place with a stick that has a bronze butt on it, it could well kill you.

如果我用一根有铜质尾部的棍子,刺你的软肋的话,很可能就是一击必杀

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Anecdotal reports from IOM monitors suggest that IDP women are particularly vulnerable to becoming involved in prostitution and trafficking as a result."

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

And so there was great concern that we were vulnerable in this way, because the disease is still a disease that could affect people.

我们很担心会这样受到伤害,因为这个疾病仍是可以感染人类的疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

International Crisis Group, Horn of Africa analyst Rashid Abdi says al-Shabab has a decentralized leadership structure that has been vulnerable to dissent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Presumably, a part of his brain quickly mobilized his faculties to scope out how to flee and how to take steps to avoid a vulnerable predicament in the future.

假定，他的一部分大脑,快速调动身体各部位,思考如何逃跑，如何采取措施,避免将来易受伤害的窘状。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Pregnant women and children are the most vulnerable to the disease, and it is estimated that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

A moral maturity as it comes to economic systems, as it comes to how we treat our most vulnerable, how we do foreign policy, what are some of the pathways as you see in front of us as we do moral maturity as we grow up?

经济体质的道德成熟，对待弱者的道德成熟，怎样制定外交政策，在我们逐渐成长的过程中,你认为我们有什么途径能够达到道德成熟吗？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is because the victims are vulnerable to exploitation, laws against this practice are not vigorously enforced and it is a hugely profitable trade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It says families that lack the protection of a man are extremely vulnerable.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

I think, for example, in my own relationships,talks about my marriage, where I have to be vulnerable, I have to take a risk, where in fact I have to be willing to change my mind about my reading of the situation, based on my own fears and insecurities and anxieties.

举我自己的感情，我的婚姻作为例子吧，在婚姻中我会很脆弱，我必须冒险，而且，我必须愿意去改变自己,对当前状况的解读，不安全感和焦虑的影响而变得盲目。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

London may be famous for its red double-decker buses, but it is the underground system, parts of it more than a hundred years old, that is especially vulnerable.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

you have to assume they are in," He says the more advanced a country is in its use of computers and the Internet, the more vulnerable it may be.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

This is a heinous crime committed against those who had been working tirelessly to assist the poor and the vulnerable on the front-lines of hunger and other suffering in Pakistan."

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

"And,high food prices and fuel prices, as well as drought have had a severe impact on the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan, many of whom are also living in very poor and inadequate housing.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"What we expect to see come out of the summit is a communiqu with an action plan, a specific timeline with very particular benchmarks that are measurable on how to secure and lockdown these vulnerable nuclear materials."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

"I am very confident that that would leave us in the position where the government is taking risks it does not understand, cannot manage effectively, highly vulnerable to overpaying for those assets, and charges that we are giving a disguised subsidy that is unjustified,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01