But it's not as easy of a defensible position either.

但这里也不是防御外敌的绝佳之地。

Yes, I did, I confess it. But I don't think my feelings are at all defensible.

没错，我承认。但我这种感觉完全不合情理。

They are defensible to me. - But it's immoral to react in such a jealous and selfish way.

依我看这没什么不合理的。- 但这种嫉妒和自私的想法是很不道德的。

Look, everything we did that night is defensible.

听着，我们当晚的所有行为都是合乎情理的。

Each statement in a dissertation must be correct and defensible in a logical and scientific sense.

论文中的每一句话都逻辑和科学的意义上是正确的和可辩护的。

" Battle if need be, " said Trumpkin. " But we are hardly ready for it yet, and this is no very defensible place."

“如果有要，那就战斗。”杜鲁普金说，“可我们现还没有做好战斗的准备，而且这也不是可以防守的地形。”

I don't need to ask anybody to know that if we use the 8.3 billion number, it's defensible, and it skews the results in our favor.

我不需问任何人就知道若我们用第一个数字，也站得住脚 对我们也更有利。

They could for example point out that the use of an expression like " natural modesty" is not always defensible, for if it is " natural" to be modest, it must be something you are born with, something innate.

例如，他们指出，像“天生害羞”这样的说法并不一定成立，因为假使害羞是一种“天生”的性格，那一定是人一出生就有的，是一种出于内的品格。