三周之前当我接受职位的时候，我就想能够继续下去，但是那是是无用的。

It is useless to say that when I took up the job three weeks ago I was hoping that I'd be confirmed.

youdao

他不会为了这么少的薪水而接受这个职位。

He would not accept this office for such a small salary.

youdao

他下周要接受一个经理职位的面试。

He has an interview next week for the manager's job.

《牛津词典》

She was awarded tenure in 1938, denied a professorship for 18 years, and when she presented her Ph.D thesis she was the one that determined that the sun is made dominantly of hydrogen, not ion, the way most of the old goats thought.

她是在1938年被授予长期聘用资格，拒绝接受教授职位18年，她在她的博士论文写到,她就知道,太阳主要是由氢组成的，不是那些老教授认为的那样它是由离子构成的。

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So what he did was go to professors who were just before either getting the tenure decision: so either they were going to get the tenure or not.

他所做的是去访问,接受终身职位审核前的教授：,他们要么得到要么得不到。

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