This'll determine your grade for the rest of the semester.

将会决定你本学期的成绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But I have another plan called the "Amnesty Plan" in which I also compare just your final grade, what you did on the Final exam, and whichever is higher of the two is what I will take to determine your overall course grade.

我还有另外一套评分计划叫,"特赦计划",就是我会比较你的学期总成绩,和你的期末考试成绩,我会取这两个成绩中更高的,作为你的课程最终成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It is not virtue or merit that determine the quality of your life.

生命没有什么价值或者德行的高下之分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You don't really puzzle your head about questions of interpretation, how we determine the validity of interpretation and so on, until A) meaning becomes terribly important to you, and B) the ascertainment of meaning becomes difficult.

你一般不会在诠释，和如何确定诠释的正确与否，这样的问题上纠结，除非：1，意义对你来说很重要，2，确定意义很困难。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But how carefully you estimate will determine in part how good your ultimate records are so please try to be as careful as you can, and then pick the closest option if you can't find the exact food that you're eating at that time.

你估计的仔细程度,在某种程度上,也会决定最终结果的准确性,所以请尽可能谨慎,如果找不到完全对应的食物,请选择和你当时所吃食物最接近的选项

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选