Its survival may depend on how willing area residents are to change their shopping and eating habits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

In fact, different people might make different choices about how much risk they're willing to bear to get a higher expected return.

事实上，为了获得高的预期收益率,人们愿意承受的风险,也会不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now you can begin to see the kinds of errors that this method might produce because people forget, they can't remember exactly how much they ate of things, or they may not be willing to disclose everything they ate.

现在你就可以明白各种误差,是由人们的遗忘而产生的,他们无法准确记得吃了多少东西,他们不会透露所有自己吃的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The question is how much are people willing to pay for news that they have gotten used to receiving for free?

VOA: special.2009.04.20

For example, if you ask people how much they would be willing to bet on a coin toss, they will typically bet more if they can toss the coin or they will bet more if the coin hasn't been tossed yet.

比如说,如果你问人们,他们愿意出多少钱去赌掷硬币,如果他们可以掷硬币,或在硬币还没被掷出前,他们会下更大的注

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We asked,for instance, how voters felt about some of his programs and again, they are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03