So Captain Sullenberger made a quick decision to land the plane on the freezing water of the nearby Hudson River.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

That's a decision of the management of the company and we have to understand how they make that decision and what that means to people who are valuing stocks.

这是公司管理层的决定,我们必须了解他们,是如何做这个决定,以及这个决定对股评家的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

an opportunity to make a decision of what we're going to go today.'

一个机会，来决定今天你们去做些什么。

It depends on 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And in those cases having the biomarker which adds a little bit of information may be helpful in terms of decision making.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

And we're data junkies, so we like to get a lot of data before we make a big decision like that.

我们是数据控，所以一般先收集很多数据,在做重大决定的时候。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

But he believed that the people of a territory had the right to make their own decision to accept or reject slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But the things we were trying to stress were that it's an important design decision when you are coming up with a piece of code, as to what kind of efficiency your code has.

但是我们这里要强调的是,当你写代码的时候,决定你的代码的效率的很重要的事情，就是你的设计决定。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At first,most of the nine Supreme Court judges had planned to give a decision without answering this question.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They promised to make a fair and honest decision on the guilt or innocence of Andrew Johnson.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The second area that we've looked is in a context of mental health, which one can reframe as chronic biases and some of these components are going to decision making.

我们观察的第二个区域则负责人的心理健康，这一区域在长期偏好,以及类似成分对决策作出影响时发生重组。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Later,he met again with his advisers about a decision on the future of the Afghan war.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And your workout routine is getting in the way of your job. You have to make a decision.

但是你的健身计划开始影响到工作。你不得不做一个选择。

There is no 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is a hard decision as there are more than two million works of art.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

In both you have the flood coming about as the deliberate result of a divine decision; you have one individual who's chosen to be saved from the flood; that individual is given specific instructions on building an ark, and is given specific instructions on who to bring on-board the ark.

在两个故事中，洪水爆发都是神的旨意,也只有被选中的人，才能幸免于难,上帝告诉这个人，怎么造方舟,并详细规定了,可以带上方舟的物种。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The commander of federal troops at Fort Sumter had a difficult decision to make.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Or, for that matter, where a loved one of mine is unable to make the decision,

或者，在某种情形下，我的某个亲人无法做出这个决定，

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Virginia's decision to secede cost the Union a military commander of great ability.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

I think a lot of people, especially the Chinese leaders, the decision-makers, realized that that's not going to last very long.

许多中国人，尤其是领导人，决策者们，意识到这不能持续很久。

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

The South Carolina Governor asked Lamon to give Lincoln this message: "Nothing can prevent war except a decision by the President of the United States to accept the secession of the South.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

But what Alexander and his successors did was they made sort of a conscious, propagandistic decision to use religious syncretism to bind together their kingdoms.

但是亚历山大和他的继业者所做的,是决定通过有意的政治宣传，用宗教融合,来维系他们的王国。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Buresh and his colleagues have come up with a set of key questions that will help farmers make that decision.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

So, I want to stress the sense of natural development, not some kind of a central authority making a decision about anything.

我在这里强调,这是一种自然的发展方式,不是某种中央政权进行决议的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And he made a vow to U.S.military members. "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Political experts see Governor Crist's decision to run as an independent as the latest example of a growing trend in U.S.politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

And the implications are that we'd like to build a confidential and dynamic theoria of decision-making that I can account for the widespread decisions that people making, those when they are inrrational reflected when they are not And we'd also like a better remapping of disease on sympton profiles, so that we can address those symptoms better.

其结论是,我们希望建立起有关决策的新兴学科,籍此来对人们的非理性决策，做出解释,同时我们也希望能够对疾病的症状作出更好的了解，从而能够更准确地确定病情。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

His decision gives Democrats a 59-seat majority, one short of the 60 necessary to overcome Republican attempts to block legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Or as he puts it a little bit later whoever is entitled to participate in an office involving deliberation or decision-making is a citizen of the city. Listen to the words he uses there in describing a citizen.

或像他稍后提到的,任何具参与官职资格的人,包含商议或决策，就是城市的公民,注意他所使用的字眼,看他如何形容公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is a very important concept, and we'll see a lot of algorithms essentially implement decision trees.

这是一个很重要的概念，我们可以看到很多,基于决策树的算法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选