But possibly the biggest story of this year's World Cup is the history of the nation holding the huge event.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

And I'm holding meetings twice a day with the engineers and pushing them to move faster and come up with better quality search services.

类似的会议一天两次,督促他们加快开发进度，开发出更高质量的搜索引擎。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

They come up to us and give us these things that they've been holding on for years,

他们来观看这些坚持了这么多年的东西，

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In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

These are sort of the cells, if you like, in memory that are holding the elements of the list.

记忆就像是数组中的元素,我们之前说的是，我在这里开始并且比较。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just as a keystone holds together a stone arch, Pennsylvania was seen as holding together the young American republic.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

So you have this firmament, ; Which is beaten back to hold back primeval waters that are pressing in; you have land which is holding down the waters here.

现在有了苍穹，它被锤平来阻挡汹涌而至的水流;,也有阻挡下面水流的土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Just be careful not to let the cat out of the bag, or someone may leave you holding the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But to be fair,he says the Lomaxes did nothing illegal they were not the only ones holding copyrights to folk songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The amount of time that each chord is holding is getting shorter and shorter and shorter as we drive into that cadence.

每个和弦持续的时间变得越来越短,越来越短，将我们带进这一段音乐的终止式。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This week,Bank of America said it received a letter from investors holding almost fifty billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

So, remember when we talk about Coulomb force, what's holding the nucleus and the electron together, there's 2 things we need to think about.

还记得我们在讨论库仑力的时候，提到是什么将原子核与电子束缚在一起时，有两点需要考虑。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Lucresi cannot!" Fortunato turned, and still holding me by the arm, pulled me down the street to my home.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

So I am going to go and I am going to look for something that has an energy of 13.6 electron volts holding it in place, and I am going to use a flashlight with 12,400 electron volts.

所以我将去,找一些东西,有13。6电子伏特的东西,将它固定在某个地方,我要利用12。400电子伏特的电子源。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But South African President Jacob Zuma says holding the World Cup has brought development that will help the country for many years.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Student: I see two people holding hands pressed together Professor Paul Bloom:Two people holding hands pressed together ? Anybody have a different reading?

我看到两个人紧握着手,两个人紧握着手,有人有不同的解读吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There were 12 shiny drops of water, each holding a tiny baby no larger than her big toe.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

So, what I want to do today-- again, this is a parallel-holding-pattern lecture.

我今天要讲的是,再次强调,这是一门同步课程

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Howling Wolf and Otis Redding.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

There is a wall around Paris and there are exterior forts, but you've got an enormous number of people besieged by Prussian and other German forces, holding on.

在巴黎外围高墙林立,堡垒遍地,但仍有大批民众,在普鲁士和其他德国军队的围攻中坚守阵地

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And the strong man, still holding the small child, drifted away on the shadowy river that flows forever to the unknown sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

That would mean that everybody is holding that same portfolio of risky assets and nobody is different, they're only different in how-- what proportions they hold the risky-- the tangency portfolio.

这就意味着每个人,都持有相同风险资产投资组合,每人都是一样的，他们唯一的不同在于-,他们所持有风险资产的比例-,也就是切线资产组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But members have been holding what are known as town hall meetings around the country to hear reaction.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

and he had his hands like this but he didn't have a sign. He was holding it as if he had a sign

他把手伸出，但他没有举牌子。他抬着手仿佛举着牌子一样，

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Then we can take the derivative of that quantity, when we vary the temperature, holding the volume constant.

即恒定体积，改变温度，这里恒定温度下。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This expression makes the person left holding the bag responsible for an action, often a crime or misdeed.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Now think about what I implicate-- the implication of holding that view.

现在想想我所说的-,刚才那种观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and that they're holding the pen in the right hand in a wide shot,

还要保证的是演员在远景里用右手拿笔，

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