But he said Democrats in Congress chose "irresponsible" spending over tax cuts, as Republicans proposed for the economic recovery plan.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

And he defined the average in terms of not the sum divided by two, but he chose the geometric mean.

鲍林定义平均并不是,简单相加在除以二，他选择几何平均。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Both melody and bass could have had a triplet but he chose to have the duple in the bass--the triple up above.

旋律和低音部都可以运用三连音,但是他选择低音两拍,高音三拍

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But he chose a large spruce tree to land in near the fire, and climbed down.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Glancing at the bottom, this is pretty arbitrary, but I chose to format my string as follows: % 1f so at the bottom here I'm printing out %.1f, which quick sanity check means print just one digit after the decimal place.

看下这个底部，这个是相当随意的，但我选择把我的字符串格式化成这样：,所以在这个底部我打印输出，提醒一下，这是一个只打印出,小数点后一位的方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But Duccio chose to show the very human and emotional interaction between Mary and Jesus.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the Lord set His heart on you and chose you ; indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the Lord favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the Lord freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

并非因你们的人数多于别民,耶和华专爱你们，拣选你们,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的;,只因耶和华爱你们,又因要守他向你们列祖所起的誓,就用万能的手领你们出来,从为奴之家救赎你们，脱离埃及王法老的手。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

would have been the winning answer had everyone assumed that the average would have been constantly compounded down to 1, but since a couple of people chose the, I mean not incorrect answers, but the higher averages, then it was pushed up to 13.

如果大家都认为,平均数会一直下降到1的话,1应该是最终的答案,但是由于一部分人选择了,并不是说是错误的,但是却高于平均值的数,就把平均数推高到了13

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But the teenager chose it over herding his family's cattle.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Good, so even if everyone in the number-- everyone in the room didn't choose randomly but they all chose a 100, a very unlikely circumstance, but even if everyone had chosen 100, the highest, the average, sorry, the highest two-thirds of the average could possibly be is 66 2/3, hence 67 would be a pretty good choice in that case.

好的,如果每个人,教室里的每个人不是随机选择数字,而是全选了100,这好像不太可能,但如果每个人真的都选了100,就是最大的书,那平均数,抱歉,平均数的2/3会是66又2/3,此情况下67应该是个不错的选项

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But the Democrats chose John F.Kennedy as their candidate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But Clay chose to stay in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But Secretary MacAskill strongly stood by the course he chose.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24