He explained that he wished to talk with Major Anderson, not to give him orders, but to find out what the situation really was.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation What was Congressman Frank thinking?

我想在让他们更进一步,在这种情况下,国会议员弗兰克为什么这么说？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The proliferation of religious texts and the proliferation of religious sects produced what was widely seen to be a potentially anarchic political situation in the early 1640s.

迅速增多的宗教文本,和迅速增多的宗教派别,创造出了被普遍认为在17世纪40年代初,的潜在的无政府状态的政治状况。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That would end the situation in which Afghanistan was what the top U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

(Speech) The former Czech Republic president said the changes in 1989 were "undoubtedly aided by people who,for long years" tried to show the world "the real situation" in what was then Czechoslovakia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17