Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Now the first law is going to hold in all of these steps, and we're going around in a cycle.

现在热力学第一定律,就蕴含在这所有的步骤里了，我们沿着这个循环走。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And what I need is somebody to hold me back a little bit

我倒是需要有人约束我一下，提醒我稍微收敛一下，

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

President Obama promised to hold a summit on entrepreneurship in his speech to the Islamic world last June in Cairo.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Somebody else might say, well I want to just hold this point, I want to hold the tangency portfolio.

而另外的某些人可能会说，我就想按这个点的比例来持有投资，我想持有切线投资组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I,Catherine Elizabeth, take thee,William Arthur Philip Louis, to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward ..."

VOA: special.2011.04.30

And he writes, for example, to Mary: "I am moreover undecided whether I ought to continue to hold slaves."

于是他便写给玛丽,比如这段,"我无法确定,我是否该继续拥有那些奴隶"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It began as part of the effort for the United States to hold the nineteen ninety-four World Cup competition.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

If I were to hold up two pieces of paper, there's a sense in which they are participating in "Twohood."

如果我拿起两张纸,便有这样一层含义,即,这两张纸分有了 二性

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

A kind of a pin used to hold your cloak together, called a fibula, unknown in the previous period.

一种别住披风的别针,称之为扣针,这在之前的时期从未出现过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Roosevelt was forty-two years old -- the youngest man ever to hold the office of president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

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

At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

So we're allowing you to, for example, to hold the belief that it's equally likely that the goalie dives left or dives right.

所以,打个比方,这里也可以包括,门将扑向左右两路概率相同的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A new Senate subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law plans to hold a hearing on May tenth about protecting mobile privacy.

VOA: special.2011.05.02

It's as if he's trying to hold language down.

这就像是想去牢牢抓住语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Thompson said the port of San Francisco was big enough to hold all the navies of the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

By determining how many of those molecules to hold onto, how many to keep in the body, how many to release determines the internal composition with regard to that ion.

通过控制体内这些分子的水平,即体内保有多少,又排出多少,就能够保证内环境中离子组成的稳定

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

After the potato plants appear, organic mulch can be spread around to hold moisture, help suppress weed growth and cool the soil.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

And the Morgan bank was the last to hold out.

摩根银行是坚持到最后的。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

It is a way for people to establish their identities in often unfriendly areas as they struggle to hold their communities together.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Bill and his men had so many cattle that they needed all of New Mexico to hold them.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

and I'll be able to hold a conversation with anybody really about anything.

我将能够与任何人谈任何话题。

介绍好朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said women must have the right to vote in elections, and be permitted to hold political office.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The only fingers with which he'll be able to hold his pen and write this poem are his forced fingers rude.

他能用来执笔写诗的手指,是他粗鲁的手指。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The students were then asked to hold their hand in cold water for as long as they could.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

So, for example, if we're to hold the time constant, this makes it a lot simpler of an equation, because what we can end up doing is actually crossing out this whole term here.

比如说，如果我们把时间,定为常数，这使得方程,大大简化，因为我们可以把,这一项划掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone even with both hands. For a foolish half minute or so there was no other words, no further speech, then "I can't talk anymore, buddy."

为了欢愉，明显是弗兰尼拿着电话,或者用双手能做的，在大约半分钟里,没有其他的话了，也没有讲话了，然后说，我不能谈论任何人，巴蒂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选