Rudi Van Rooyen and Philippa Smit from South Africa decided to take a holiday this year in Florida.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

and then decided to switch over into a little bit more of the brand management side of the business,

然后我决定做一些调整，向品牌管理方面发展，

我的职业是 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He decided he would get a medical opinion from the doctor without paying for it.So he described his problems to Abernathy.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

And so I decided to have a progressive scale that increases according to what you earn like the tax scale.

所以，我决定制定一个累进的捐款标准表,捐款的数量随着收入的增加而增加,就像税率表一样，这个标准表从收入的1%起步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Sometimes a person fights a battle that has been decided or keeps arguing a question that has been settled.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

While Milton decided against writing an explicitly political nationalist poem, he did see himself as writing a poem that performed some kind of political function.

尽管弥尔顿决定要写的不是,有政治性的民族主义诗歌，他也让这首诗,发挥了一定政治作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Lee and his officers decided to make a final effort to break out of the circle of Union forces.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Instead of having a central bank we decided that there would be a list of banks called the National Banks.

与拥有一个中央银行不同的是,我们决定将很多银行归到,国家银行的行列中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

This is a little bit of a tricky experiment, so we decided we'll just smoosh it all in, and we'll actually be able to account for it, because we'll take into account the area of all of those atoms.

因为我们要，考虑所有原子的面积，我觉得这个，黑板是不能自动上去的，好了，我们知道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

So in the summer of 2001, we decided to switch gear from a backend technology provider to a front-end consumer-oriented search service.

于是在2001年夏，公司决定从后台技术提供者,转变为直接面向消费者的搜索服务提供方。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

So, it's--In a way, it decided when the fighting is going to take place up to a point.

这种情况,在一定程度上,决定了战争爆发的时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He decided it was a sign that he needed to make his dream of being a building designer a reality.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

And finally he decided to pursue a PhD in physics.

最终他选择考物理学博士。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

After a year at Sanderson Academy, Mary decided that her handwriting was not good enough to be read clearly.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

If I told you that I decided to buy a greyhound instead of a pit bull because I wanted a dog of a gentle temperament, nobody would scream that I'm a dog racist involving--and--but honestly, it's a stereotype.

如果我告诉你我决定,买一条灵缇犬，而不是斗牛犬,因为我想要一条温驯的狗，没有人会说我是狗品种主义者,但说实话，这就是刻板印象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She later decided to take a singing class so she could perform the music she had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

I think the essential element, in my mind, that makes it a crime is the idea that they decided at some point that their lives were more important than his, and that, I mean, that's kind of the basis for really any crime.

就我的认知，我觉得最重要的一点，之所以说他们构成犯罪,是他们认为，某种程度上，自己命比派克更重要，而这正是一切犯罪的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In eighteen seventy-two, a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

So my friend decided he'd give it a try and he raised his hand and he said, "Voltaire," and then paused and hesitated and continued with his lecture as though my friend had never asked his question.

所以我朋友也决定要试试,他就举起手说：“伏尔泰“,然后停顿一下，犹豫会儿，就又接着开始讲了,就好像我朋友没问过问题一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She was very intelligent. At a very early age she decided she wanted to be a writer someday.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

It happens. Fortunately, while sitting in jail awaiting trial, the slow thief decided to figure what was wrong. And, amazingly enough, he had studied mathematics. And had a blackboard in the cell. So he was able to work it out.

失主叫了警察然后小偷最后被抓进了监狱,幸运的是这个贼做来牢房里,等待判决时发现了自己的错误,它很惊人的学习过数学，牢房里,还有一个黑板，它可以把题目算出来了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She and Union Station decided to take a break from recording so that she could rest and recover.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

So, I applied to a lot of schools and from the ones I got in, I decided to come to Yale.

所以我申请了很多学校，从录取我的学校里选择了耶鲁。

来自西班牙的留学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In seventeen sixty, when he was in his middle twenties, Patrick Henry had decided to become a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

I decided to come here because I did research here as a high school student,

我决定来这儿是因为当我还是高中生时就在这里做研究，

来斯坦福的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So I'm going to wave my hands at what one fflush of these things here does, fflush here, but I decided this is kind of a weak implementation.

所以我将向这些东西所做的挥手,这里的，但是我觉得这是个有点无力的实现。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选