We're not being merely churlish, I think, if we want to ask why someone would want to write a poem in such a form.

我们要问为什么会有人,想要写这种形式的诗并非毫无道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Sometimes I ask myself why I'm mothering 80 students

有时我会问我自己，为什么要照顾80个学生，

教授的梦想 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Let's think about it for ten seconds why this could be interesting and relevant, and I want to ask if anybody changed their mind.

首先我们来,考虑下这条，提示几秒钟。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I think we're fully entitled to ask why: why Milton waits for the last eight lines of his poem to tell us that there's a difference, that there's a difference between the poet and the speaker.

我们完全有权利问为什么：,为什么弥尔顿要等到诗的最后8行,才告诉我们这里的区别，这里诗人和演说人之间的区别。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I mean you have to ask yourself why did we ban thalidomide.

请回想一下,我们为什么要禁止使用沙利度胺。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?

其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它，我在意的是它？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you can introspect and ask, why is it that I vote?

那请扪心自问,我为什么要投票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well.That's why I ask somebody stand up you.

好的,所以我要找人帮忙

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And I ask myself, why?

我问自己，为什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is also, I should say, on the basis of this letter, which is why I ask people from time to time to remove their caps in the class room, from the House of Study.

也应可以说是因为这封信，促使我总是要求,课堂上的同学摘下鸭舌帽来听课，至少在学习的殿堂里。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you pay me ten thousand dollars a month to work for you, I'll work for you and I'll think "I'm doing it for ten thousand dollars a month, that makes a lot of sense," but if I do it for nothing then I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing it?"

如果你一个月给我一万美元帮你工作，我会为你工作，但我会想,”我是为了一万美元才做的，这样更合理“,但如果我一点报酬都没有，那我就会问我自己，”我为什么要做这份工作？”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But in fact, it is not. And so, something I find myself repeating over and over again to myself, to my graduate students, is when you get an answer from the computer, always ask yourself, why do I believe it?

但是实际上，它并不是，因此，我一直一遍又一遍的重复的,给我自己和你们这些学生的就是,当计算机给出一个答案后，一定要问问自己为什么要相信这个答案？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, suppose you fall in love with somebody and you decide you want to marry them and then somebody was asked to ask you why and you'd say something like, " "Well, I'm ready to get married this stage of my life; " I really love the person; " the person is smart and attractive; I want to have kids" whatever.

假设你爱上了某人,想要与对方一同步入婚姻的殿堂,要是有人问你为什么想要与对方共度余生,你大概会说，“现在我已准备好要开始婚姻生活了;,或“我真心的爱着他;,或“他聪明有魅力;,“我想要小孩了“，等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选