They defended it against both French and Spanish forces, and against raids by Yamasee Indians and by pirates.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

If I understand it correctly, science as science insofar as its belike scientific methodology, he needs to be defended.

如果我没有弄错的话，就论文所用的科学方法本身而言,就论文所用的科学方法本身而言，作者的立场应该受到维护。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Rather, he claims that he wants to hear justice defended the way that no one has ever defended it before.

相对地，他声称,他想要听到正义自卫的方式,是没有人曾提出的捍卫方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He defended his decision to end the Constellation program that NASA began under former President George W.Bush.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

When she defended her thesis, she was forced to put this phrase in her thesis.

当她做论文答辩时，她被迫将这说法放入论文里。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Why did an inhumane institution of course not everybody who defended it thought it was inhumane but why did that system survive, persist and grow?

为什么一个不人道的制度,当然不是所有捍卫它的人都觉得不人道,为什么奴隶制度还是会生根,发芽,成长

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Republicans defended high tariffs, which they said were necessary to protect American industry and labor.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

If you had a house outside the acropolis as you would, it was not defended.

如果你在卫城的范围以外造了间房子,那它是没有防御能力的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

At first,Comcast denied it, but then defended its actions as "reasonable network management."

VOA: special.2009.09.25

And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.

你们都知道，我认同的是物理主义者的设想，根据这个设想，我们都只是有着机能的肉体，我们能够实施人格功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The automakers defended their plans Wednesday as Congress heard from angry dealers.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Well, I actually think the Russian formalists can be defended against the charge that, unbeknownst to themselves, they fall back in to form-content distinctions by insisting on this variety of dualities.

但是我认为,这些形式主义者们在不自觉中，对于形式和内容的双重性,太过偏执。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And he said Fort Sumter would be defended against all hostile action.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And, in fact, the most dominant proponent of the view is our very own Frank Keil, master of Morse College at Yale, who has strongly defended the notion of an intuitive biological module.

事实上,这个观点最主要的支持者,是我们学校的弗兰克·凯尔,耶鲁莫尔斯学院的院长,他为直觉生物学模块做出了有力的辩护

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

General Toral defended the city as best he could.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

here's Marcus, he just defended them.

比如马库斯，他就为他们辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That fort was easy to attack and not well-defended.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

If the latter, if this hierarchy of intelligence or this hierarchy of the rational is the result of upbringing, ? then how can slavery be defended as natural?

若是后者，即智慧的阶级制度,或说理性的阶级制度,是教养的结果，那奴役如何能以自然演变加以辩护？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And you have defended your flag bravely.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

These were not defended. Your farmland was not defended.

没有防御工事,你的农场都是不设防的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Washington was not strongly defended.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And when somebody else then attacks them, say, "Look, I think that what John was saying was a good point and here's how I think he should have defended his position," or what have you.

并且当其他人攻击他们时，你说听着我觉得约翰说的是个好点子,和这是我认为他应该怎样维护自己的立场“,或者你有什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mr.Obama defended his efforts to strengthen the U.S.economy, which included unpopular moves to bail out banks and rescue automakers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Now, how is slavery defended?

现在,奴隶制保卫战的本质是什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Queensland government has defended its response to the disaster thus far amid accusations that it failed to act quickly enough.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Vaccine court is a system where government attorneys defended a government program using government funded science, decided by government judges."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Government officials defended the crackdown, saying they are not opposed to democratic rights, but merely want to maintain security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Geithner also defended President Barack Obama's decision last week to oust the chairman of ailing U.S.automaker General Motors.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05