But on defense, he became one of the most feared shot-blockers in the league.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And the relay had closed on the poor creature, crushing it to death. The defense department didn't care about the loss of a moth.

可怜的虫子碾死了，国防部门并不关心,一个虫子的死活。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Whilst we might be cutting back, China is increasing its spending, India is increasing its spending on defense."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Trotsky's Literature and Revolution is a brilliant book, an attack on many things and a defense of certain other things, but in particular and very painfully an attack on the formalists.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学与革命非常精彩，它攻击了许多当时的理论，同时也维护了一些，但是它特别猛烈地攻击了形式主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Baek Seung-joo, at Seoul's Korea Institute on Defense Analysis, says he thinks North Korea will discuss what he describes as "fundamental nuclear issues" only with the United States, not China.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

So, we can think about what would happen if we're on his thesis defense, we're on his thesis committee, we would need to think of some pretty mean, hard, nasty questions that's what happens when you defend your thesis.

所以，我们可以设想一下,如果我们在他的论文答辩会上,担任论文委员会的成员，那么会发生些什么，我们会想一些非常严厉的,冷酷无情的，险恶的问题,那也是你们在论文答辩时,会遇到的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

NATO is an alliance of democracies. And many of its members have had a lot of trouble convincing their parliaments, and their people, to spend money on defense during what seems like a peaceful time in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The Defense Department has been writing a policy for all of the military on the use of social networking sites.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Children's Defense Fund hired her to build a library on a farm it owns in the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

On Friday,Mr.Gates gave his last policy speech before he retires as defense secretary on June thirtieth.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

He says the defense team will appeal the conviction on the single charge.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

On Friday American Defense Secretary Robert Gates completed a visit to Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

During that time,she worked to improve the education system in Arkansas and served on the Children's Defense Fund and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization that she helped create.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

The U.S.defense secretary has rejected suggestions for a more limited approach emphasizing air strikes over troops on the ground.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The ministers will also hold talks on new areas of cooperation with Russia,and the new U.S.approach to missile defense.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Russia has offered some cooperation on missile defense in the past, but has resisted the kind of system U.S.officials have proposed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

From Asia,Secretary Gates will travel to Slovakia for a meeting of NATO defense ministers expected to focus on Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Analysts say defense spending is changing along with strategies - with an emphasis on intelligence and deterrence rather than on combat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"On missile defense - we have agreed that we are going to continue to discuss this critical issue.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

(RECORDING) Mr.Fischer said President Obama told him that the United States would not be building a missile-defense radar system on Czech territory.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"I think we're on a very good path to making a sea-change in our missile defense posture within the coming three-to-five years."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The original missile defense policy was based on the assumption that Tehran was seeking a long-range capability.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

He said that misconception had landed him in jail. The former Liberian president first took the stand in his defense on July 14.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Israel's defense minister has ordered the army to use massive force to impose a freeze on construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

But on the advice of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and senior military leaders, President Obama decided that no more are needed for national defense.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Israel's Cabinet angrily rejected the United Nations resolution, saying the army's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip last December and January was legitimate self-defense.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

On Thursday,a close aide to British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth resigned in protest over the war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04