They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

He describes for us his own power that somehow manages to survive even a terrifying and humiliating defeat like the one he's just experienced.

他向我们描述了他的力量--在经历了这样一次,可怕的令人羞辱的失败之后,他还是顽强的生存下来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Egyptian magicians who are initially able to mimic some of the plagues that are brought on by God--they are quickly bested, and Yahweh's defeat of the magicians is tantamount to the defeat of the gods of Egypt.

埃及的巫师最初只会模仿,上帝制造的瘟疫，巫师们随后就被打败了，耶和华战胜了巫师相当于,打败了埃及的众神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He replaced General Ambrose Burnside, when Burnside suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg,Virginia, at the end of eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Plato's desire for a kind of radical makeover, of Athenian and Greek political institutions and cultures, grew out of his experience of political defeat and despair.

柏拉图想要彻底改变，雅典及希腊,政治制度及文化的欲望，来自他的,政治挫折及失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The strategy says the United States aims to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida, but also to support democracy and human rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

When, rather than trying to fight or defeat our nature, we accept it.

不是想办法战斗打败我们的本性，我们接受它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And,here is the favorite proverb of Marius Meledje in Ivory Coast: "Your defeat now is your victory in the future."

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.

他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

It's a contest just like everything else in Greek society and there's a tremendous amount of pride that goes into victory and a tremendous amount of shame that goes into defeat.

这种竞争与希腊社会中,其他斗争一样,胜者王,享受无穷荣耀,败者寇,受千万人耻笑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

But party to a defeat.

不过也是战败的一方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

They are what he has to work with, even though they are what defeat him in his effort to make sense of this experience with Magda.

他必须使用它们，尽管就是这些词语使,他失败了，无法传神表达和Magda的经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

But despite this enormous concession and this realization, Satan is still justified, I think, in his cynical demystification of God's behavior before the defeat of the rebel angels.

尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变，但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝行为,冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The professor has a vicious enemy to defeat, central intelligence agents to outsmart and a friend to save.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Joshua 12:10 reports the defeat of the king of Jerusalem.

约书亚书》第12章10节讲述耶路撒冷国王的失败。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The ruling clears the way for corporations and unions to use their own money to support the election or defeat of a candidate.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

You know, one famous tactic is--if you have an infantry force coming forward, you send tanks in it to break up the line of the infantry, so that you can defeat the infantry in that way.

最有名的战术是,如果有敌方步兵逼近,你把坦克派过去,破坏他们的步兵阵型,以这种策略对付步兵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Part of the book talks about the defeat of the Italian army at a place called Caporetto.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

He's referring to the Tyranny of the Thirty that existed after the Athenian defeat.

他所指的是三十暴君,成立于雅典兵败之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

So you can see that the trial of Socrates the little speech that you have read takes place in the shadow of military defeat of resistance of conspiracy and betrayal.

所以你可以看到苏格拉底的审判,你们所读到的简短演说,发生时的场景是笼罩在军事败北,抵抗，阴谋与背叛的阴影之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The treaty was defeated. The defeat ended Wilson's dream of American membership in the League of Nations.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I go the most direct way. Anyone who eats crow has to admit a mistake or defeat.

VOA: special.2010.06.13