公司之间相互竞争以占据市场主导地位。

Companies jousted with one another for lead position in the market.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

在人类众多的发明中，语言占据最重要的地位。

Of all mankind's manifold creations, language must take pride of place.

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在革命战争占据主导地位的这些年里，人们如何在更大的冲突中区分阶级冲突呢？

With the Revolutionary War dominating these years, how does one distinguish class conflict within that larger conflict?

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When you don't have to worry about criteria like that ordinary, mechanical energy rules supreme, and that's dictating where equilibrium lies.

如果你不担心像这样的要求,通常的机械能就占据主要地位，并且决定平衡位于何处。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This is a story that is predominantly in Genesis 2 and trickles into Genesis 3 and I'm going to look at it mostly in isolation from the first account.I'm going to be looking at it in light of an important parallel.

这个故事在《创世纪》2，3章中占据很重要的地位,我采用脱离对第一个故事的描述方法,将这两个故事，放在同等重要的位置上来解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think it's very important to notice that some of these places that were big in the Mycenaean world were entirely abandoned and not settled again by the Greeks.

我认为值得注意的是,这些地方中有些是,在迈锡尼文明中占据重要地位的城邦,就这样被彻底遗弃了,而且并没有被希腊人重建

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