"One of the absolutely key, most important variables as to whether or not a forest survives and continues is whether local people monitor each other and its use.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

At the end of last class,I began to raise the question as to whether or not we should distinguish two questions that we would normally be inclined to run together.

在上节课的最后我提出以下问题,是否该要区别这两个,我们通常倾向于一视同仁的问题。

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So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

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Whether or not it will bear as much fruit remains to be seen.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

You might ask though,is there some other behavior, something else that should tip us off,could tip us off, as to whether or not we really do or don't believe that we're going to die?

你可能会问，有没有其他行为，能够让我们突然醒悟，知道我们真正是否相信自己会死呢？

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Whether it is intended or not, the missile launches serve as an implicit reminder to South Korea of the North's ability to inflict massive damage on very short notice.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

And with respect to securities selection, you want to consider your skills and you want to consider the efficiency of markets when you're making your decisions as to whether or not to pursue passive management or active management.

证券选择方面,要考虑自身能力与市场有效性,从而决定,是采用被动型管理,还是主动型管理

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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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。

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In England, I think we refer to these guys - whether it's technical or not - as "Evil gits."

在英格兰,我们把这种人叫,自私鬼,不知道这算不算术语

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And let's just suppose the correct theory of personal identity is Van Inwagen such as to put aside any worries we might have along with van Inwagen, that we discussed previously, as to whether or not on resurrection day that would really be you or not. Suppose it would be you.

假设正确的个人认同感理论是这样的,例如将之前讨论,理论时的种种担忧放在一边，也就是审判日当天,到底是不是真的你，我们假设就是你。

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So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

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As long as my soul continues to exist it's still me whether or not my body's still alive.

只要我的灵魂继续存在,无论我的肉体是不是活着,我仍然存在。

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And as I say, to this day, philosophers disagree about whether this argument works or not.

我说过,迄今为止,哲学家们对于这个论证是否正确很有争议

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How can whether or not I am the same guy as the guy who was lecturing to you on Tuesday depend on what's happening in Pennsylvania or Australia or Mars?

我跟星期二给你们讲课的人,是否为同一人这个问题,怎么能取决于在宾州或澳州或火星发生的事情？

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We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

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It's an interesting question as to whether he really explains how a child goes from a concrete thinker to an abstract thinker, or how he goes from not having object permanence to understanding object permanence.

问题是,他是否真的解释了,儿童思维是如何从具体向抽象转变的,或是真的解释了,儿童的客体永存性概念是如何从无到有的

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