Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And I think what we decide to do in our congregation here whether it's Christian, Muslim or Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist,whatever.

我认为我们对于在国内的集会中做什么的决定,无论是基督教，穆斯林,犹太教，印度教，佛教，不管哪种。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's like when you have too much meat in the city, you decide to not eat any of it, so.

就像是在城市吃了太多的肉类，于是你决定再也不吃了。

与朋友们的回忆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

But once you start publishing things in between covers, you actually have to decide what goes in and what goes out.

但一旦你开始把书籍加上封面出版，你就必须决定要出版哪些书。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Now let me just say in a technical way: if you decide to volunteer to nominate a novel, you'll get no extra credit.

从实际角度讲：,如果你自愿推荐一部小说，你不会得到额外的学分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But in general these schools have greater freedom to decide what to teach and how to teach it.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Somebody in one of the old Greek cities has to decide that he wants to go out and establish a colony.

在其中一个古希腊的城市中,突然有个人决定要建立一个殖民地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Continuing disasters in the Indian Ocean made Indonesia decide it must have a warning system of its own.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

All right. So formal charge can actually help us out when we're trying to decide between several Lewis structures that look like they might be comparable in terms of which might be the lower energy or the more stable structure.

好的，形式电荷真的可以,帮助我们决定,在几种路易斯结构中,哪个更可能符合能量更低,或者结构更稳定的要求。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Hmm. Well, wait a minute. If I want to sort a list, I'll take one element, I've got to look at probably a lot of the other elements in the list in order to decide where it goes. And that suggests it's going to depend on how long the list is.

我会取一个元素，然后去查看列表,来决定要把那个元素放到哪里,这就意味着它依赖于列表的长度,对，这没什么说服力，但是事实上。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But it was not. It was written in a very general way that left the courts to decide what the law really said.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But in the real world that's a sequential game, people decide to run in some order, we're going to assume this is all simultaneous.

但在现实生活中这是个有顺序的博弈,人们依照某种顺序决定是否参选,我们将假设这全是同时发生的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The incident was one of many in American history in which a president had to decide if he should interfere in private industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Suppose we were trying to decide on a constitution for the world in that state.

比如我们会讨论决定,这个世界的结构体制。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Lawmakers argued: was the peoples' right to decide the issue of slavery restricted only to the territories named in the compromise of eighteen fifty?

VOA: special.2009.04.30

I'm not sure how many of us would decide the last thing we wanted to do with our remaining years is to spend it in college.

我不确定我们中有多少人会决定,在最后几年里要做的最后一件事是,上大学。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In this scene, their editors are trying to decide if the paper has enough to support a story that the reporters want to print.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

in federal health care programs. Congress will have to decide how to finance the remaining costs.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

In order to answer that question, which will decide Locke's fit with the libertarian view, we need to look closely at what legitimate government looks like for Locke, and we turn to that next time.

为了回答这个问题，即确定洛克到底是否自由主义盟友，我们得进一步研究洛克所指的合法政府是什么，下次再继续这个话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

President Obama still has to decide the future of a Bush administration plan to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The results decide how many seats each state will have in the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

So one way that neurons, in particular, are able to communicate with other cells in the nervous system, share information, integrate information, decide what to do next is that they are physically connected to other different cells.

所以神经细胞之所以能够,与神经系统中其他细胞通讯,分享信息,整合信息,从而决定下一步该做什么,是由于不同细胞间,是彼此连接在一起的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Different bishops in different major cities and different councils would sometimes try to decide, and they'd put out decrees.

不同城市，不同议会的主教,有时候会尝试把它确定下来，他们会颁布法令。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选