For years,people have wondered whether they are safe from germs when they travel in small,enclosed areas.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

When Dean and Carlo are talking to each other, there's a lot of anxiety on either part about whether they have actually attained that thing that they were looking for.

当迪恩和卡洛在说话时，双方都有种焦虑,不知道他们是否真正得到了他们所追寻的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Again, the elite in Britain were scared, because you've got all these Ranter groups and Levelers and people who believe that everybody ought to have the right to vote, whether they have property or not and people that believe in the right of women.

英国的精英们被吓得要死,英国当时有各种喧骚派团体,平均主义者以及民众,他们相信每个人都应该享有投票的权力,不论贫富,还有人认为妇女也应有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"And no matter where you are in the world, that is a very important thing, to be proud of who you are and be able to let people hear what you have to say, whether they like it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.

约瑟夫知道这将打击他父亲雅各布,如果失去Rachel唯一剩下的儿子，但他只想考验兄弟看他们是否改过自新,在他们把他变卖为奴之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They need to be independent," "They need to have full vested powers that are given them, whether it is of investigation or prosecution.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The question of whether discriminant conditioning has been used with babies to explore what sort of concepts they have.

这个问题是,在探究婴儿拥有什么类型的概念时,是否对婴儿应用了判别式条件作用

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

South Korean officials have demanded a formal apology from the North and say they have not yet decided whether and how to pursue the matter further.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Why should we weigh all preferences that people have without assessing whether they're good preferences or bad preferences?

为何该同等看待所有偏好,而不区分其好坏呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Sierra Leonean law is clear. Anyone who "maliciously" publishes defamatory material could be put in jail for up to three years, whether or not what they have written is true.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are questions about how much Army officials knew about Major Hasan's alleged foreign contacts and political leanings, and whether they could have taken some action that might have prevented the massacre.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

to the process whereby the heavenly angels not only eat food but they also digest it; and Milton lets us know, whether we want to know or not, how those angels actually excrete the food they have taken in.

去描述天堂的天使不只吃食物而且要消化它的过程,弥尔顿让我们知道，不管我们想不想，这些天使怎样排泄出他们吃的食物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"We concluded that health care insurance plays a huge role in determining whether or not patients are able to come to the hospital promptly enough when they have symptoms of a heart attack."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

And if we talk about what's going on in areas, or with atoms that have high electronegativity, and we think about whether they're electron donors or electron acceptors, what would you expect for an atom that has high electronegativity?

如果我们要讨论这片区域的情况，或者说讨论这些电负性很高的原子，我们会把它们想象成电子的施主,还是受主？,大家认为哪一种,是电负性很高的原子？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"They are having an impact, whether domestically or internationally, and you have got to account for it, and this is one of those break points where you stop and assess how is the administration doing?

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Not just because they have more money to give, yes,Americans have more money to give and they give a lot more money, whether it's in food,whether it's in medical aid.

不仅仅是因为他们更富有，的确，美国人更富有,他们常捐钱，无论是在扶贫或医疗救助方面。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"He will also have to reassure the Poles and the Czechs who I think are feeling a little nervous as to whether they are deemed bargaining chips and might be traded away in some efforts with the Russians.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

I think it's whether or not the prisoner's cooperate in the sentence they have, and if they kind of rat out the other person, then they can have less; but if both rat out, then they like end up losing large scale.

我记得是,两个囚犯面对审判的时候有如下选择,如果他们中有人供出了对方,他它会减刑,要是他们都供出了对方就要受重刑

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I think a lot of European allies, including France, are looking to the United States to roll out a new Afghan strategy that they can more comfortably buy into, and they will be looking at whether they can up their contribution, their military contribution, their economic contribution, after they have seen that particular strategy,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The test of this then is to have blind auditions where people do their auditions behind a screen so you can't tell whether they're man or a woman, or for that matter, white or black or Asian or whatever.

然后他们进行闭幕试演以作测试,演奏的人被一块屏风挡住,看不出演奏的是男人还是女人，或者白人还是黑人，亚洲人还是其他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选