This is when a student gets experience in a position that may or may not be paid.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The United States is not in a very powerful position anymore,

美国没有那么强大了，

担忧未来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

(Speech) He says it is important to stabilize finances but the government is not in a position to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Once we get clear about what the relevant metaphysical glue is, we'll be in a position to start asking: Could this happen or not?

一旦我们知道了,形而上粘质是什么，我们就会问：,这会发生吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mr.Brown is still officially Prime Minister of Britain, but Travers says he is not in a strong position.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

language, my language ] -what I say and what I think in language--speaks true.] That's the position taken up, not at all the same thing as saying what's out there doesn't exist -nothing to do with that.

那就是，语言，我的语言，说的是真话,这里的语言是指我所说的，以及我用语言所思考的],就是那个立场，与说那里什么东西不存在是完全不同的,与那个没有任何关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Mustafa,who edits al-Ahram's Democracy magazine, says the position,taken in 1983, is not in keeping with national interests.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I do not think we are there yet,". "I would hope that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but there has to be one first.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the signals about the Iranian position on the deal are not so positive and that could negatively affect the upcoming P5+1 meeting in Geneva.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

But if the Tehran government chooses not to engage on the nuclear issue, that would put the United States in a stronger position to seek "other ways" of applying pressure on Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"I am very confident that that would leave us in the position where the government is taking risks it does not understand, cannot manage effectively, highly vulnerable to overpaying for those assets, and charges that we are giving a disguised subsidy that is unjustified,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"It sure looks like the way they are suppressing speech, the way they are suppressing crowds, they way in which people are being treated that there is some real doubt about I do not think we are in a position to say,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17