"Oliver Williamson's research has offered new insights on how transaction costs determine the boundaries of the firm.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

STUDENT: So, how do you come to a conclusion as to which you should use then, if you can determine the size based on solution, or based on input, so how do you decide?

学生：所以，你怎样决定你该用,哪个来算呢？现在如果你可以选择是，基于解决方案的大小，还是基于输入的大小，你应该怎样决定呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Human actions determine the degree to which God can dwell on earth among his people.

人类的行为决定着上帝如何,对待他的子民。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Authorities are trying to determine what happened in the singer's last hours, as he suffered cardiac arrest in his rented home on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She says the first step is to determine if Madni was on a stop-over there and if so, other legal action will be set in motion.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Uriah Parmelee was a kid who grew up on a Connecticut farm, and the best I've been able to determine his family was part of this market revolution.

乌利亚·帕米利,是一个在康乃狄格农场长大的孩子,我能推断出他们家,最多也就是个市场革命的一份子

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

a critical meeting with Iran's nuclear negotiator on October 1 to determine if Iran is prepared to discuss an end to a uranium enrichment program believed to be weapons-related.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

You don't really puzzle your head about questions of interpretation, how we determine the validity of interpretation and so on, until A) meaning becomes terribly important to you, and B) the ascertainment of meaning becomes difficult.

你一般不会在诠释，和如何确定诠释的正确与否，这样的问题上纠结，除非：1，意义对你来说很重要，2，确定意义很困难。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I am not worried about quality at all. Because again I count on not only on the regulatory agencies that determine the quality of the water in which these products are grown.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

Steroid hormones, on the other hand, molecules like testosterone and estrogen, progesterone, the sex steroids that determine sexual characteristics and are important for reproductive function are molecules that are all derived from a similar source.

另一方面,类固醇类激素,像睾丸激素,雌激素,黄体酮这样的分子,性激素决定了性征,它对生殖功能十分重要,这类分子有着相似的来源

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Secretary Gates says he believes Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons and that the international community must keep it on "tight enough deadlines and specific enough requirements" to determine whether its government is seriously interested in taking a different course.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But I have another plan called the "Amnesty Plan" in which I also compare just your final grade, what you did on the Final exam, and whichever is higher of the two is what I will take to determine your overall course grade.

我还有另外一套评分计划叫,"特赦计划",就是我会比较你的学期总成绩,和你的期末考试成绩,我会取这两个成绩中更高的,作为你的课程最终成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Holy things are holy because they are removed from the realm of the common by means of rules or safeguards that demarcate them as different and separate and determine that we use them differently. The preservation of holy status therefore depends on those rules and safeguards.

神圣的东西之所以神圣是因为,它们通过规则和保护措施远离了普通的界域,这些保护将它们划分为是与众不同的，并且决定了,我们应该不一样地使用它们，神圣状态的保留时间长短,取决于这些规则和保护措施。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选