He says his team's research is influenced by questions in evolutionary biology about why people and groups use costly punishment.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

His friend, Remi, is taking him in a limousine to a concert, ] you to think about why that might be important].

他的朋友雷米正要用这辆豪华轿车载他去音乐会，我想留给你们思考这点为什么重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And you have to write an essay about why you want to go to law school

同时，你要写一篇文章，谈谈你为什么想上法学院，

法学院的入学过程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Here Gregory Anderson talks about why languages are important: "Language is in many ways, a window to the mind.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

We will always have r equals zero in these radial probability distribution graphs, and we can think about why that is.

在这些径向概率分布图里,总有ｒ等于０处，我们可以考虑为什么会这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Natural selection does not explain everything about why species evolve.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But I want you guys to think about why it was difficult to do it another way, which is more pedestrian.

但是我希望你们能思考一下,为什么用另一种更普遍的方法来做,反而会比较难呢

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Mr.Brown's spokesperson said the Prime Minister was keen to "state the case" about why Britain was right to take action in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

I have a way to account for that, but it's going to take to the end of my argument to do that, so I'm going to argue that that's significant, but I'm not going to talk about why it's significant yet.

我对那有自己的理解，但是我在最后才会告诉你们，我要跟你们说，那点的意义是非常重大的，但我现在还不能谈论它的重大意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In 2008,Wilson talked to VOA about why he decided to take action.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

So you really want to think about why we're modeling, what do we get from this exercise?

你们要多问问自己为什么要建模,我们能从这些模型中学到些什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

(Sound) One well-known young opposition activist, Mohammed Reza Jalaiepour, who was later arrested by the government, placed this emotional confession about why he joined the opposition on Mousavi's Facebook Web site.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Right? And can someone who agrees with Matt say a little bit more about why a lottery would make it, in your view, morally permissible.

对吧，有没谁同意马特的说法,再来说说为什么通过抽签,让你觉得，在道德上可以接受。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some U.S.legislators are demanding answers about why Hasan's intercepted communications with the radical cleric did not prompt wider scrutiny of the psychiatrist's actions or intervention that could have prevented the attack.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But before telling you about this let me sort of Go through some of the hypothesis that we have and That we are now testing about why the subject is Difficult and why these materials assembled what We have assembled them might be useful.

但是谈那之前我要说说,我们之前的一些假设,我们现在正在测试为什么这个学科很难,以及为什么我们整合这些资料是有用的,我们认为把它们整合起来或许有用。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Join us as we learn about the cultural value of language and why endangered languages must be protected.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

I found that he was inhibited by doing the reading because some are coming in and telling me about why do I have to do it.

我发现在做阅读时他很内向,因为阅读时会有人过来,告诉我为什么我要阅读。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They are using radars and other equipment to learn more about how, why and where tornadoes form.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

I don't think that can be the central fact about why death is bad.

我不觉得这就是“死亡有坏处“最主要的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to better development.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

So, I was talking about the scientifically respectable ideas of Freud and I want to talk about some new ideas about why there could be an unconscious.

我当时正在讲,在科学上颇有名望的弗洛依德理论,我想给大家讲一些新的,关于“无意识为何会存在“的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That is why the word heart is used in so many expressions about emotional situations.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

So think about why I didn't leave it here.

所以想一想我为什么不把它放在这儿。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That is why we are here today. I want to be clear about this.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

There are different theories about why they call them Blue Sky Laws.

至于为什么把它叫做蓝天法,有很多不同的说法

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Why should there be any question about my age?" "Oh,it wasn't a question.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

I don't have to say too much about why vaccines are important.

疫苗的重要性无需多言

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Why don't you tell me about it?"

VOA: special.2009.07.25

We've talked about why we use the pop music.

我们也讨论了我们为什么要用流行乐举例。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.

弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的，非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选