Successful teams work together when on the attack, but they also try to stay compact and defend as a unit too.

成功的球队在进攻时协同合作，防守时也联合一体。

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At Manchester United we defend as a whole team and I know the fans appreciate everybody's job.

在曼联我们是集体防守的，我知道球迷们欣赏每个人的工作。

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The best sides defend as a unit.

最好的球队需要整体的防守。

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As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

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Is there anyone prepared to defend cost-benefit analysis here as accurate as desirable? Yes? Go ahead.

有没人来赞同成本效益分析的,认为它精确合宜吗，你说。

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They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

他们奔走呼号,捍卫自己的权利,以城里人身份去反对贵族的专制野心,而在荷兰,某种程度上,同英国是一样的

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But that line may prove difficult to defend as inflation continues to surge.

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If the Red Bulls defend as generously as they did in the second half against Portland last weekend, things could get ugly.

WSJ: Red Bulls Defense: A Work in Progress Without Progress

He has his defenders moving on the training ground as if joined together by an invisible rope - the key idea being that they must defend as a unit.

BBC: Argentina's case for the defence