So I decided to celebrate, have some fun and let my hair down.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

And so I decided to have a progressive scale that increases according to what you earn like the tax scale.

所以，我决定制定一个累进的捐款标准表,捐款的数量随着收入的增加而增加,就像税率表一样，这个标准表从收入的1%起步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Most of us don't know enough to know with a high degree of accuracy how things would have gone had I decided to become a farmer instead of a philosopher.

多数人了解得都不够,无法更确切地知道,如果我成为农夫而非哲学家,到底会有怎样的人生。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I don't think it's going to satisfy everybody. I think there are certainly a large number of Facebook users who have decided they really can't trust Facebook anymore."

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Alternatively, if I went back to the office and took Yale's $22.5 billion dollars and decided that I was going to day trade bond futures, security selection wouldn't have anything to say about the returns; asset allocation wouldn't have anything to say about the returns.

或者,如果我回到办公室,把耶鲁的225亿美元,投资于即日平仓的债券期货,在这种情况下,证券选择不会影响回报率,资产配置也不会影响回报率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Obama as a presidential candidate was big news in Africa,and I decided that since we have a commitment in this library to collecting all kinds of information materials produced in Africa, we should immediately begin to collect materials about Obama, about how Africans responded to the Obama candidacy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

And I originally decided I was going to have as points, it's going to have internal values of an x and a y.

写了一堆代码,然后我以开始决定，是要把值放到点里面的,点有内部的x坐标和y坐标。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I am from Turkey and right now I am attending Ferris State University and I decided to come to the United States mainly because I have been playing competitive Tennis for a very long time and my Tennis coaches mentioned to me that in the United States I would be able to get a scholarship and also get an education so that is the main reason I came to the United States so I can play really competitive Tennis and get my education."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14