And they will study whether it is involving in controlling sleep quantity alone, or also what scientists call the "wakefulness-behavioral drive."

VOA: special.2009.08.26

And then, of course, not just whether the reaction will occur but, how fast it occurs is really important.

当然，我们不光要研究一个反应会不会发生,反应速率多块也是很重要的研究问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Does it really matter to you whether your code is going to take 300 years or 900 years to run?

或者900年区别大么？,这个数字的规模才是问题关键所在？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Again, whether it's conscious, subconscious, explicit or implicit, the question though is in fact it is important, should it be important?

不论是有意识的，还是潜意识的，明显的还是隐晦的，问题是它确实重要，但快乐应该是重要的吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Instead,it will be based on a simple principle: whether a state is ready to do what works.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Since what we want to know is whether the soul is immortal, how do we know it can't break.

既然我们想知道,灵魂是否不朽，我们怎么知道它会不会破裂呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The first,and perhaps most important, is whether to bury the body or cremate it.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Of course, it's contested whether or not there is really any merit in talking about texts that way.

当然也有人质疑,那样去谈论一部作品是否真有必要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I don't think this is going to have that big an effect on either side, whether it's the states who want to maintain their territorial integrity against the aspirations of some of their own indigenous people or, for that matter, movements that want to seek their own independence and freedom."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

It's nothingness that is the mystical state rather than everythingness. And it's interesting to think about whether those two are really opposites.

虚无比万事万物更为是神秘,很有趣的是，想一下,这两个是否真的相反。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Whether the price is highor low he stills plant pepper because,apart from growing rice, it is all he has ever known.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

And all of that is coming out of the heat of reaction, whether it's positive or negative.

所有这些都来源于反应热,它可以是正的或负的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

(Speaking in Russian) Lipman says the move is very smart, though whether it will work is another matter.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Whether this dialogue is actual or internal, it doesn't really matter.

这语言是真实的抑或是没有说出的都无关紧要了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"This is our 41st year. Each year is different. Whether it be comic book publishers, toy manufacturers,or whatever.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt said it is yet to be seen whether Madoff will cooperate in the investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And when we're looking at the probability density graphs, it doesn't make a difference, it's okay, It has no meaning for our actual plot there, because we're squaring it, so it doesn't matter whether it's negative or positive, all that matters is the magnitude.

它的概率密度图的时候,两者没什么区别，这是可以的，它对我们画这个图，没有什么意义,因为我们是取平方，所以它的正负，无所谓，只和幅值有关，但当我们说到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

We want to figure out if the harmony is changing, and if it is changing whether it's changing at a regular or irregular rate.

一是判断和声是否发生了变化，二是如果发生了变化，和声的变化频率是规则还是不规则的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The Blair criticism has only begun. It also raises questions of whether his role as a special Middle East envoy is now untenable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

So if you're going to discuss whether or not military conscription is equivalent to suppressing people's right to life, you shouldn't approach it that way.

所以如果你要讨论,征兵制度是否等价于压制人们的生命权，你不该这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

But whether that's an aberration, or that it's a new trend is still too early to say right now whether we're a new growing trend or not.

但究竟这是意外现象，还是一股新趋势,要下定论现在还为时尚早,我们还无法确定这是不是新趋势。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A presidential task force has been reviewing the restructuring plans of both companies to determine whether it is realistic for them to continue operating.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

There has been, over the years a lot of turf battles between the SEC and the CFTC because it's sometimes unclear whether something is a security or a futures.

历年来,证券交易委员会和期货交易委员会的领域战争层出不穷,因为有时候很难说,一个东西究竟是证券还是期货。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Speaking to al-Jazeera television, Ocampo said the destiny of Omar al-Bashir is to face charges whether it is in two years or 20 years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

Well that process of control to maintain a constant environment inside our body, whether it's an environment of constant mass or constant composition, or constant temperature, is called homeostasis.

这个控制过程维持着,体内环境的恒定,不论是内环境中物质的量的稳定,或者成分的稳定,或温度的稳定,这种状态叫做内稳态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It just turns out to be wrong but another way-- And so one way to attack and address a scientific theory is to view it as just to see whether or not it works.

但最终被证明是错误的-,评判一个理论,是否属于科学理论的另一种情况,就是看它是否成功的进行了预测。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选