Professor Ahmed Abdul-Karim Saif, who teaches at the University of Sanaa, says that both the government and the Houthi rebels are trying to "improve their positions" in the build-up to what appears to be an imminent ceasefire.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

That's what has changed between these two positions.

这就是在这两个位置间所发生的变化。

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We're going to imagine that there are two candidates, and what these candidates are doing is they're choosing their political positions for an election.

假设有两个候选人,而这两个候选人,为了选举必须确定自己的政治立场

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What are the possible positions on this question?

可能存在什么见解呢？

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All the groups that stand to win or lose from it are all figuring out what it does to them and they're taking the positions out of self-interest So, I wanted to write something that was more perspicacious if I could manage that.

所有人无论赞同或者不赞同这个改革,都试图搞清楚这个改革对他们将有什么影响,从自身利益来讲，想搞清楚他们究竟能得到什么,所以，如果我可以的话,我更希望我能写一些独具慧眼的东西。

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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So, in particular, let's start working out what share of the votes you'd get if you chose position 1 or position 2, against different positions the other guy can choose.

先来看看如果你选择立场1和2,在你对手选择不同立场时,你分别能获得多少选票

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