They say he often asked why some plants grew better in different areas of the farm.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

But Eudora Welty was once asked why Southerners can be such great writers, or such good storytellers and she was a wonderful storyteller.

但有一次她被问到,为什么南方总是出伟大的作家,或者是杰出的小说家,她自己就是个很出色的小说家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?

其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它，我在意的是它？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Many years after Hank Williams' death, new fans of his music have asked why he could put so much of his life into his songs.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then the officials asked why Brown had come to Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."

但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Now when asked by the hardest workers why "each of the laborers received every man a penny," the householder replies, "Take that which is thine own and go thy way.

当那些最辛苦的工人问户主为什么“每个人,都得到了一便士呢“他回答，拿着你们的东西走人吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Eartha Kitt said the First Lady asked her why she thought there was so much youth crime in America.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?

或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The soldiers there once asked him why he went out into Apache country every day.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

It's as though he's explaining, giving an answer to a question that somebody asked, "why didn't the Spartans do better in that battle?"

修昔底德的解释,回答了许多人的疑问,"斯巴达人为什么不将剩勇追穷寇呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We asked competitor Chuck Mung from Portland,Oregon why he thinks air guitar is so popular.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Someone asked me, "Well,why are some notes consonant and why are other notes dissonant?"

有人问我，那么为什么有些音符是和音而有些不协调呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

She was asked by the Dallas Express newspaper in Texas why she wanted to fly.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

Way back at the start of the semester when we asked,Why believe in souls?

学期一开始的时候我们研究过为何要相信灵魂的存在？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We asked Professor Smith why vampires are so popular in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

The department stores said no and so we asked, why would they say no?

百货公司拒绝了，于是我们问道，他们问什么要拒绝？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the teachers asked paul why he had come to the meeting.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Subjects who were asked to do ten positive features and then later ranked the person lower and then asked, "Why did you rank the person lower?"

被要求列出十个优点的被试,降低了所爱之人的地位,接着，当其被问到，“你为何将爱人的地位降低了“的时候“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So,the planners asked, why not re-use the material to rebuild Poplar Island?

VOA: special.2009.10.06

So my student called Bernard Sadow up and asked him about his invention and he said, "Yeah, I was thinking, why don't we have wheels on suitcases?

于是我的学生打电话给伯纳德？沙度,然后询问了他关于发明的事情，他说道，是啊，我当时在想，我们为什么不能在行李箱上安轮子呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Why then,he asked, should it not continue to exist that way.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Croesus was astonished and he asked Solon why did he select Tellus?

克罗伊斯很吃惊,他问梭仑为什么选特勒斯

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We asked two Trekkers why they love the series.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Why does a trumpet--If I asked a trumpet to play this pitch, a trumpet played, and then I asked an oboe to play it, the sound would be very different.

小号为什么...,如果我用小号演奏这个音高,小号演奏后,我又让双簧管来演奏,声音会很不一样

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

he asked. "Why,yes! Yes!"

VOA: special.2010.05.29

I was taking my younger child home from a play date on Sunday and he asked me out of the blue, ?" "Why can't you marry your mother or your father?"

周日我带我的小儿子去玩，回家的路上,他突然问我，“你为什么不能和你的父母结婚“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.

这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题，他找到弥尔顿，让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选