He described a number of incidents in which Israeli forces launched direct attacks against civilians with lethal consequences.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

And, being he described as an infinity of indivisible particles, which he dubbed atoms from the Greek.

他将原子描述为无限的极微小的,粒子，他用德语给原子命名。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The sovereign is described by Hobbes as an artificial person by which he means the sovereign is the creation of the contract or the covenant that brought this office into being.

霍布斯把君主描述为一个,现今意义上的法人,也就是说君主的权力,是由某种意义上的合同,或说是契约而形成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

McChrystal described a situation in which the Taliban and related groups are advancing, and said he needs more resources to avoid mission failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Pick any two perpendicular directions Then the same entity, the same arrow which has an existence of its own, independent of axis, can be described by you and me using different numbers.

选取两个互相垂直的方向,这样同样的物体,同一矢量,并且是独立于坐标轴而存在的,可以被你和我用不同的数字来描述

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Earlier this month Syria and Turkey signed what is being described as an historic agreement, which allows visa-free travel between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The United States maintains that the self-described satellite launch would violate U.N.Security Council Resolution 1718, which bans North Korean nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests, and was approved after Pyongyang's 2006 nuclear test.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

He got sufficiently upset about this to write a book called I Am Not Spock where he described all the ways in which he was not a Vulcan.

他非常生气，写了一本书,叫《我不是Spock》，在书中他从各个方面,描述了他不是Vulcan人的证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23