Always chosen as a candidate when sure to be defeated.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Sweden kind of disappears from the great power state when they're defeated by Peter the Great in--when is it?--1709.

在1709年被彼得大帝打败后,［此处指的是1709年的波尔塔瓦之战］

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He was a young man of 23 when the democracy in Athens was defeated.

雅典民主挫败时3,他是，23，岁的年轻人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And she feels proud that she was able to do it. "Sometimes you can feel defeated when you have to study for a test and your baby is crying or something else is going on,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04