I was in a position to find out.

我的职位能查明真相了。

He felt the United States was in a position to do so.

他认为美国有能力这样做。

Patton believed he was in a position to slam the jaws of the trap shut.

巴顿认为，他有能力关上陷阱的入口。

Unlike many women, I was in a position to evaluate that risk and chose to take it.

和许多女性不一样，我的职位让我能够去考虑到这样的风险，并敢于去挑战它。

JAMES MADISON: He was in a position to enrich himself in a thousand ways, and he didn't.

他身处的权位赋予他无数方法，让他可以谋利自肥，但他没有。

By 1906, he was in a position to send for his wife and daughters.

到了 1906 年，他已经可以派人去接他的妻子和女儿了。

But you need to know, if I was in a position to judge you, you'd be getting a very high score.

但是你要知道，如果我有资格评判你，那也是很高的评价。

The Union had won some battles. The Confederacy had won others. But neither side was in a position to win the war.

联邦军和联盟国分别赢得了一些战役，但双方都无法获得这场战争的胜利。

Well, it was frightening for me because I was in a position to try to encourage the flight attendants to strike.

嗯，这对我来说很可怕，因为我有能力鼓励空乘人员罢工。

And unlike basically every other person on Earth, he was in a position to raise tens of billions of dollars just to buy the thing.

与地球上几乎所有其他人不同的是，他有能力筹集数百亿美元来购买这件东西。

Lady Constantine, to external view, was in a position to desire many things, and of a sort to desire them. She was obviously, by nature, impulsive to indiscretion.

在外界看来，君士坦丁夫人可以渴望很多东西，而且在某种程度上渴望得到它们。显然，她生性冲动，轻率。

That England was in a position to eventually eclipse the Dutch as the major naval and trading power in Europe was perhaps due to the expansion of its colonial empire during Charles' reign.

英国最终超越荷兰，成为欧洲主要的海军和贸易强国，这或许是由于其殖民帝国在查理统治期间的扩张。

It was only in 1883 that Claude was in a position to afford to decamp to Giverny and eventually buy the house and walled garden in Giverny, where he would live for the remainder of his life.

直到 1883 年， 克劳德才有能力逃往吉维尼， 并最终在吉维尼买下了房子和围墙花园，并在那里度过了余生。

'Miss Hale, I had a round-robin from some of my men — I suspect in Higgins' handwriting — stating their wish to work for me, if ever I was in a position to employ men again on my own behalf.

“黑尔小姐， 我收到了一些手下的轮询——我怀疑是希金斯的笔迹——表明他们希望为我工作， 如果我能够代表我自己再次雇用人的话。