He became a "free agent." For months,sports fans had tried to predict where the star would choose to play.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Shouldn't individuals be free ? to choose for themselves their own plans of life ? wherever it may take them?

难道不应让个人自由选择,他们自己的人生计划吗,无论结果会如何？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

it's very easy for me to imagine a case where I would choose that it's best to take my own life.

我很容易设想在哪种情况下选择死亡是一个最好选择。

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Seven states and the nation's capital held primary elections on Tuesday to choose candidates for the November elections.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

So, that's why I think finance will be an interesting field for those of you who choose to go into it.

这也是为什么我觉得对于你们这些,立志从事那个行业的人来说,金融是个很有意思的领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Others choose a place that will not be too far for all the guests to travel.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

So the so-called lounge what you'll be able to find in just a week or so is timed with the first of the office hours if you so choose to join us for them.

一周左右的时间或者第一次上机的时候,你们就能看到这个所谓的休息室,你们到时候可以选择是否加入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Kris Jarantoski says people also choose flowers such as the spiderflower for its ability to reseed.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

For example, I might believe that it's equally likely that they choose Left and Right, is that right?

举个例子吧,我可能认为他选择,左和右的可能性是相同的,对吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And it aims to help national health officials choose antivenoms for their countries' special needs.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

In other words, we choose a convention for the zero of entropy, so that then we can write entropies of products and reactants always referring to the same standard state.

换句话说，我们选择了一个,焓零点的约定，这样我们,就可以总是相对于同样的标准,状态写出生成物和反应物的焓。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In it,Charlie Brown has to choose a Christmas tree for a special Christmas program.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

You may choose to embrace dualism, reject the idea that the brain is responsible for mental life, and reject the promise of a scientific psychology.

你也可以选择身心二元论,拒绝承认大脑引起心理活动,看低科学心理学的前景

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Choose the link for News & Resources, then click on Publications.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Plato seems to believe that each of us must choose somehow, must choose between one or the other of these two contenders for the most serious and worthwhile way of life.

柏拉图似乎相信,我们每个人都应选择，必需在这两种竞争概念中,做出选择,以求得严谨及值得过的人生。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he says Mr.Clegg may choose to provide parliamentary support for the Conservatives without forming a coalition.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Please choose a rhythm for excerpt one you can choose rhythm A which is or you could choose rhythm B So I'm about to play a piece. It's by Chopin.

请选一个和你听到的相符的节奏,你可以选节奏甲,也可以选节奏乙,我现在要弹一段,肖邦的曲子

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"If you put me to the test and said, 'Choose one reason why you garden and why you bake,' it's for the food."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Then you can choose one of those for the specific food.

之后你可以在这些特定的食物中选择

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

At most American colleges, undergraduate students choose one area of study, like English or biology, and focus on it for all four years of their education.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

In 24, the Israelites are assembled at Shechem to renew the covenant and Joshua recounts God's mighty deeds on behalf of Israel and exhorts them to choose whom they will serve: Yahweh, who has done all of this for them so undeservedly, or the gods of those whose lands they are settling in.

在24章中，以色列人聚集在示剑重订契约,约书亚代表以色列人重述了上帝无上的契约,并劝告他们选择将要侍奉的神灵：,耶和华，已经为他们做了这么多分外之事，以及他们迁入土地上的神灵。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Parliament is now scheduled to meet next week for a third time to choose a new leader - but this round too is widely expected to end in a deadlock.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

It could be the letter understood either graphically or audibly, and the variety of ways in which one can choose a basic unit in the study of linguistics means that you need a special word for that unit, which is characteristically "the tagmeme."

它既可以以图像的方式理解，也可以以声音的方式，因为每个人研究时选取的,基本的语言学单位不一样,所以需要一个特殊的名词来指代这个单位，这就是，法位“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

(THUNDER RUMBLING) ERIC: Prom Committee is a chick thing, but I gotta cover it for the paper anyway, and they need a guyto help choose the music, so I need your play list.

VOA: standard.other

Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Iraq has been mired in a political stalemate since legislative elections in March left Shi'ite political factions vying for dominance, and the right to form a government and to choose a prime minister.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It was a good option for me to choose

这个专业是个不错的选择，

为何选那门专业？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I also advocated it as a right for autonomous adults to choose if they are eternally ill.

我还主张将选择安乐死作为自主的成年人的一项权利,使他们在患有绝症的时候可以有所选择。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I'm really just interested in how filmmakers make films for what motive they have in common, why they make them and how they choose to present reality.

所以我对电影制作者们,在制作电影时有没有什么共同的动机,他们为什么要制作电影，如何用电影反映现实,等方面很感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

We had acknowledged that Alpha is a dominant strategy for my opponent so we must choose based upon, or knowing that my partner is going to choose Alpha.

我们发现了α是我们对手的优势策略,所以我们必须要根据,我对手会选α来做出选择

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选