D'Arcy plans to use the letter to embarrass Madame X's husband and destroy his political power.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So Socrates has become a very central symbol of political resistance and resistance to political power and of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.

所以，苏格拉底已,成为政治抵抗的中心标志,还有抵抗政治权力,及未受管束之规则对个人的危害。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Roosevelt spoke of America's success as a new economic and political power in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Political power blinded them to their responsibility to be honest and fair to the public.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

But if you look at 1860, the bottom map, if you can vaguely see those deep, dark, red areas, you can see where cotton moved, where slavery moved in the domestic slave trade, and then where Southern political power moved.

看看1860年,就在地图的最底部,如果你们能看到这些深红色的区域,你们就能明白棉花种植地的扩大,是如何导致奴隶需求量扩大的,同样变化的还有南方政权力量

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Populists wanted producers to have some of the political power traditionally held by non-producers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

By now, in our time, however, the power of religion has faded, and for many, the basis of modern political and moral order has been demolished.

但是现在,宗教的影响力慢慢减弱了,对大部分人来说,现代政治,道德准则的基础已经被毁坏了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But they quickly learned that they held political power only at the local level.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

And you will find, as we will in the next few weeks, the Southern political power by the 1850s and 1860s is really no longer in Virginia, or even South Carolina, it's out in the Mississippi Valley.

在接下来的几周课中你们会发现,截至十九世纪五六十年代,弗吉尼亚,南卡罗来纳州和密西西比河谷,已经不存在南方政权力量了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A new party would weaken their political power.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Like Milton, Satan is in the business of demystifying power, of exposing political or cultural power as something that is not simply inherently there or naturally there.

正如弥尔顿一样，撒旦也是要揭开力量被神化的幻想，向人们揭露政治或文化力量并不是,与生俱来自然而然的存在的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Remember,all political power is inherent in the people and government is supposed to be working for the people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And this new power had a president with the political skills to do the job: William McKinley.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Well, the people who the Romans called barbarians destroyed the Western empire and it also the destroyed the power of the emperors and their efforts to impose religious and political conformity under imperial control.

那么,被罗马人称作野蛮人的民族,摧毁了西方帝国的同时也摧毁了,君主权力,以及通过王权实施,政教合一的种种努力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

These huge and colorful paintings make a political statement about her rise to power.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Milton's power was primarily seen as social and political and cultural.

弥尔顿的力量最初被看作是社会，政治，文化上的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They said Sherman had no power to make any kind of political settlement.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He agreed to postpone earlier elections in exchange for a power-sharing deal that saw his political opponents drop their electoral boycott.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

And,he notes,political participation has the power to moderate radical tendencies and take away the appeal of extremist ideologies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

No political bloc took enough seats to assume power and Western diplomats,among others, say it could be weeks,perhaps months before a ruling coalition could come together.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

It's a country more like the mountainous parts of Afghanistan, where you have to undertake special operations, more use of the air (power) and, also,political handling.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

The new Japanese ruling party, which took power after 50 years of rule by its political opponents, ran on a platform that promised a more assertive posture toward the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Suddenly, it became almost impossible to criticize the legacy of the late president and this outburst of national emotions, after the disaster, changed the balance of power on the political scene."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

He says that is why the people started this protest, no one told them to do so, they did it themselves, and they took power without help of the political opposition.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The head of a coalition of Mauritanian political parties opposing the military leaders who seized power last year has said that talks toward the resolution of the country's political crisis have ended unsuccessfully.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Organizers of the anniversary events say they want the festivities to connect with ordinary people to show that it was people power, with the help of reform-minded political leaders, that brought down the Wall and changed the course of history.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Organizers of the events say they want the festivities to connect with ordinary people to show that it was people power, with the help of reform minded political leaders, that brought down the Wall and changed the course of history.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09