The northern victory had settled for all time the question of whether states could leave the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

If you're pure, not only are meats and viands pure , but all kinds of knowledge, whether of good and evil.

如果你纯洁，不只是肉和食物，肉和酒会变得纯洁，所有的只是，无论善恶都会变得纯洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It all sort of depends on how you hit it off with somebody, whether there's a spark.

这要看你是不是跟那个人合得来，能不能擦出火花。

跟校友们的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

All that we can decide is whether we will play our part well or poorly."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And they're awfully simple because, all I can do now, is decide whether to execute some piece of code or another.

它们之所以太简单的原因是：,现在我能做的，就是,决定执行一块代码或者执行另外一块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But I ask the honorable senators whether their duty will be done by simply limiting themselves to opposing any one or all of the resolutions I have offered."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

If these bonds were all completely of equal distance apart, whether is was a lone pair or bonding electrons, 5° the angles would be 109 . 5 degrees.

如果不管它是孤对，还是成键，它们等距分开的话，键角是109。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

So in a sense, it's all the same to me as a shareholder whether they pay dividends or they repurchase shares.

所以某种意义上,对股东来说是一样的,不管是支付股利还是回购股票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Brennan told NBC that all terrorists arrested on U.S.soil are tried in civilian court, whether or not they are American citizens.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

We should be able to try all things, to prove all things, and then decide whether or not we actually like it, whether it brings us some sort of pleasure or wisdom.

我们应该尝试所有东西，证实所有事情，然后决定我们是否真正喜欢它，它是否能带给我们快乐和智慧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"They can decide whether they want to travel all the way from their village to the city."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

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

All that's fine. I just wished they had exercised a little more restraint in judging whether that yet merited this kind of an achievement award.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

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

"It is very important.Super important. it involves all of us whether we live here in Denmark or whether we live in Asia or in North America,for that matter."

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

And unlike souls, where it was all rather mysterious, how you could tell whether body whether souls swapping, was taking place or not.

不像灵魂论，那么充满神秘，你如何去辨别肉体,或者，灵魂是否，持续在变化，并不那么神秘。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

it has avoided bankruptcy so far." It all depends,says Faulkner, on whether the damaged well can be fixed, the spill stopped permanently and how well clean-up operations go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Put that all down and you pretty quickly see that, regardless whether the other guy rats you or not, you're better off ratting him out.

先放下手里的事,快速思考一下,不管那个家伙是不是坦白了,你最好要坦白

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"When you can't say for sure whether all the women in the advance provision group actually used the medication, then you're kind of looking at population level effect of a strategy, not the individual effect of a medication."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

There's never any question at all about whether one can eat.

填饱肚子从来不是问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Well,there were a lot of situations throughout the entire course of the film whether we were all wrapped up in cables floating through an elevator shaft or whether we were being soaked by a massive water tank that was blasting around us."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Happiness, whether we like it or not, whether it's consciously , subconsciously, whether it's explicit or implicit, for most people-- not all, but for most people, it is the highest end.

快乐，不论我们喜欢与否，不论它是有意识地，还是潜意识地，不论它是明显的还是隐晦的，对多数人来说-,不是全部但对多数人来说，快乐是最高追求。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"God only knows what he wants," "There are all kinds of discussions, whether this is about succession wanting his son to succeed him, and whether or not he is looking for respect, whether or not he really wants a nuclear capability to threaten the region.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

All right, so we can now see a little bit of what the power of molecular orbital theory is in predicting what kind of bonds we're going to see in molecules, or whether or not we'll see this bonding occur at all.

好了，我们已经可以看到一点,分子轨道理论在预测分子中,所成的键或者分子，能不能成键方面的能力了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"But the important question is whether or not you need that information and our view very strongly is that,you know, all of that type of information that is relevant to the conservation and management of whales can be gathered using new and very powerful non-lethal tools."

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

The licensing agent reads the book and determines whether or not to print it at all or license it to appear in print.

出版管理机构阅读后决定是坚决不许印刷,这本书还是许可它被印刷成册。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"If we are going to build something - how we build it, how we construct it so that it would be accessible to people of all types of disabilities, whether we talk about a ramp or we talk about a doorway or a handrail, things like braille on elevators and signage and things like that."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

since all the information is in the current price, you don't have to worry about whether it went up or down yesterday, to decide what it's going to do today.

因为当前价格代表了所有信息，你就不需要去考虑昨天股价,是涨了还是跌了，再去判断它今天的价格会怎么变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It comes from personal experience that raises a question at least about whether all values can be translated without loss into utilitarian terms.

是亲身见闻所引起的疑问,是否所有的价值都可以完好无损地,转换为功利主义的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选