Here are some questions to ask before making a decision: How much privacy can a student expect?

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Milton seemed to have decided against marriage as he was making the decision to wed himself to his poetry instead.

那里弥尔顿似乎已经决定不结婚了,因为他已经下定决心要致力于诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, I want to stress the sense of natural development, not some kind of a central authority making a decision about anything.

我在这里强调,这是一种自然的发展方式,不是某种中央政权进行决议的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was there that Barack Obama honed his decision-making skills, and his approach to problem solving.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

So as I said, they're going to be identical in terms of making the decision that way.

因此就像我说的，如果用这种方法来判断,它们应该是完全相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mr.Hatoyama has signaled he will seek to make the U.S.relationship less central to Japan's decision-making.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

The second area that we've looked is in a context of mental health, which one can reframe as chronic biases and some of these components are going to decision making.

我们观察的第二个区域则负责人的心理健康，这一区域在长期偏好,以及类似成分对决策作出影响时发生重组。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"The first delay is decision making in the family whether to seek care or not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

You want decisions to be made there so you need some additional mechanism for decision making at the point of contact between the axon of one cell and the dendrite of another.

而想要做出决定,在一个细胞的轴突和下一个细胞的树突,的连接点上 需要额外的决策机制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is an issue where we need to take concrete action to increase the number of women in politics and especially at decision-making levels in politics,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, "This decision to build new housing units in East Jerusalem undermines the credibility of those involved in making the peace process continue."

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Right. - And I think that if he was making a decision to give his life and he took on the agency to sacrifice himself which some people might see as admirable and other people might disagree with that decision.

对，-我认为如果是他自己决定献出生命,如果是他自己提出要牺牲自己,也许有人会赞颂这种行为,而其他人也许会反对这个决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The Lisbon Treaty is intended to speed up decision-making in the EU.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Or as he puts it a little bit later whoever is entitled to participate in an office involving deliberation or decision-making is a citizen of the city. Listen to the words he uses there in describing a citizen.

或像他稍后提到的,任何具参与官职资格的人,包含商议或决策，就是城市的公民,注意他所使用的字眼,看他如何形容公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Very often the woman would not have the autonomy of making her decision, so she has to depend on husband and family and parents and in-laws, and everyone's involved in the decision for the abortion."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He's making his own decision as you said and no woman is going to tell him to eat quiche or tofu and that you may have missed it but in the song there we'll show this later in class again but in the song they say that 'I won't eat quiche anymore' and 'goodbye to tofu' and things like that.

正如你所说,他是在做出自己的决定,没有女人会要求他们吃什锦蛋饼或是豆腐,你们可能没注意到但是背景音乐中有提及,等下我会再放一次,但背景乐中有'我再也不吃什锦蛋饼了',永别豆腐,之类的歌词

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"This president basically is rolling the dice, he is making the most important decision of his presidency, betting on his ability to work with Pakistan and get this shared problem of the two Talibans under control,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

And the implications are that we'd like to build a confidential and dynamic theoria of decision-making that I can account for the widespread decisions that people making, those when they are inrrational reflected when they are not And we'd also like a better remapping of disease on sympton profiles, so that we can address those symptoms better.

其结论是,我们希望建立起有关决策的新兴学科,籍此来对人们的非理性决策，做出解释,同时我们也希望能够对疾病的症状作出更好的了解，从而能够更准确地确定病情。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

In its overview, GAO said the Office of Cuba Broadcasting lacks a formal strategic plan to guide decision-making on its funding and operations, including a proposal to reduce TV Mart newscasts from two 30 minute evening programs to five minute news updates every half hour.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18