These contracts let buyers lock in a price for basic materials.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

God and humans lock in an eternal struggle, neither prevailing, yet both forever changed by their encounter with one another.

上帝与人类陷入一场永恒的战争，谁也不占上峰，但是他们相遇时却一直会引起改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So, what we want to do-- this is what Hicks discovered I can do the following transaction to lock in, in 1925, the interest rate between 1926 and 1927.

这就是希克斯所发现的,我可以在1925年进行以下交易,从而确定1926年到1927年的利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Investors flooded in to lock in high profits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Lock people up in classrooms and tell them they should be better people.

把人们锁到教室里教育他们要做个好人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

As we cross the river, he takes us through a lock he says has been closed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Entire sections of Washington have been on virtual lock-down in advance of the summit.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

I can lock in the interest rate right now.

我现在就可以把利率定下来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The interrogators were told they could put them in painful standing positions, deprive them of solid food, keep them awake for extended periods of time, lock them in cold rooms, and submit them to the technique of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"So I did do something about it go home and lock myself in my garage, in my recording studio, and not going to come out until I sound so different that I make my mother happy and she knows me from anybody else.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14