It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

and you've got to hit a ball which is on the ground with a sort of croquet mallets.

你要用一个类似木槌的东西去打击地上的球。

知道马球吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

we "put both feet squarely on the ground" of the Eiffel Tower, we're liberated from the idea that somehow or another it's a governing presence.

如果，我们将，“双脚平放于地面“，站在埃菲尔铁塔上，我们就摆脱了,它是一种支配性的存在的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

First, take the case in the elevator is on the ground floor of some building and completely addressed.

首先我们来看看电梯,在一楼时候的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The Essex stood half over the other prophet as if it were pleased to guard what it had finally brought down. The man didn't look so much like Haze lying on the ground on his face without his hat or suit on. A lot of blood was coming out of him and forming a puddle around his head.

埃塞克斯看着这个先知，好像很高兴地守卫着,自己撞倒的这个人，这个男人看起来与海斯并不相像,没有戴着帽子或穿着西装趴在地上，一大堆血,从他的体内涌出，在头部附近形成了一个水坑状的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When you have a velocity in the moving plane frame and you want to find the velocity on the ground, you should add to every object in the plane the velocity of the plane with respect to the ground.

当你在运动的飞机上运动,然后你想找到相对于地面的速度,你就应该给每个物体加上,飞机相对于地面的速度

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