Radiologists say patients should ask their doctors whether tests using radiation are needed, and,if so, ask for the lowest dose possible.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You know, you can work, if you are in, you konw, technology, electronics, whether it's Sony or Samsung,

你可以工作，如果你是科技、电子领域的，无论是索尼还是三星，

热门工作 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Whether that result is positive or if is a flat result or something in between - something that we're not quite sure what it is - it is the first ever anti-retroviral containing product.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

You guys have to decide whether you, okay. So if you're going to, if you're running you stand up.

你们需要考虑是否你们,这么说吧,如果你们要,如果你要参选,你就站起来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"If you turn on the radio you can find something you like, whether you like things that are more contemporary Country, or you find more things that are traditional Country or more rock-influenced."

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

And I think if you are outside, whether you are walking or sitting, paying attention as a spiritual practice is really not only seeing, but having all of your senses engaged in what's going on is important.

我想如果你在户外，无论是走，或是坐，作为感受灵性的实践,所谓的注意，并不仅仅是看，而是调动你所有的感官,来感受身边的一切，这才是要点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

On Sunday,Emanuel said the main question now is whether there will be a credible Afghan government to help provide security and government services, if foreign troops are able to reverse recent Taliban gains.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

So if you're curious this one I'm gonna kill off - because it will take a little while-- you'll find that available on the cloud if you'd like to experiment whether or not you're doing that edition or the other.

由于时间关系，我就现将其关闭,如果大家觉得好奇-,可以自己尝试一下,不管你是否选择将这个版本作为,实验内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"The Saudis have articulated a lot of reservations about whether sanctions are really going to do anything to keep the Iranians from getting a bomb if that is what they decide to do.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I also wonder whether if it's a good way of focusing the world's attention on the issue of blood diamonds and on this very important trial by getting such a high-profile figure involved with it."

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

If you want to understand whether compounds form or not look only at the valence shell.

如果你想理解化合物是否形成,而不仅仅只是看看价层。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He says that's not fair. "Whether it's gay marriage, whether it's making changes in the community or making changes on a broad scale - if I'm a citizen of the United States, it affects me as well."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Whether or not you find the no branching rule hard to believe, if both views are stuck with it,well,then we're stuck with it.

无论你是否觉得无分支规则很难接受，这两种观点都卡在这里了，我们也就卡在这了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It's important for many reasons, really,to give the confidence to the ground teams -- all our American GIs as well as our coalition partners on the ground -- that if they do get injured, there's somebody to go get them, whether it's in a benign situation or in the middle of a firefight."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

We want to figure out if the harmony is changing, and if it is changing whether it's changing at a regular or irregular rate.

一是判断和声是否发生了变化，二是如果发生了变化，和声的变化频率是规则还是不规则的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So if you're going to discuss whether or not military conscription is equivalent to suppressing people's right to life, you shouldn't approach it that way.

所以如果你要讨论,征兵制度是否等价于压制人们的生命权，你不该这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If we learn from these experiences in ourselves, the question is no longer whether or not it's possible to experience it more and more in our lives.

如果我们自己吸取这些经验，那么问题就不再是，是否有可能,越来越多地体验它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You see, you can keep the operations the same whether or not you pay a dividend, if choosing not to pay a dividend means substituting stock repurchase for dividend.

不管你是否支付股利,你公司的运转都不会发生变化,如果不发放股利,那就意味着,以股票回购代替股利分配

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We don't have to make up our minds in advance whether it was a real world or a completely fantastic one, but at least let's see if we can describe what world it looks like.

我们不必事先考虑这是一个,真实的抑或虚幻的世界,但至少要知道我们能否描述这个世界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now you can come to your own conclusions about whether that makes sense and we'll go over different dietary approaches as we go through subsequent classes If you compare ancient humans to what modern people eat, let's look at different constituents of the diet.

关于它是否合理,你们可以自己下结论,接下来让我们会,看看不同的饮食指南,让我们对比下古人和今人的饮食,首先是饮食结构的不同

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And so, he has put this chemistry to use in this robotic arm and they call it Fido, because often dogs are the creatures that have to go out and detect these things, and it's not a great job if you're a dog to be sent out to see whether there was an explosive and discover yes, there was, a little bit too late.

因为通常都是派狗去检查这些东西,这个不是个好工作，如果你是一只狗,被派去检查是否有爆炸物，然后你发现有,那就来不及了,所以用机器手检查化学物质。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, whether or not the email is addressed specifically to you in like the two field or if maybe you were BCC'd or it's a big email list of which you're just part, that could signify that this is in fact useful for you.

所以，不管这个邮件是不是,单独发给你的,或者这个邮件有一个大的邮件列表,而你正在其中，其实这也暗示了,这个邮件对你是有用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But if you are so inclined whether for this problem set or any other throughout the term, you can change your mind week to week.

但是如果你倾向哪套题,那么你可以按周改变想法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

See if you can determine how many chords we have here--whether we have a chord change.

看看你能不能听出这里面有多少有多少和弦，是否有和弦的转变。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if you defend the easy pass, from his point of view, it doesn't matter whether he chooses the easy pass and gets one in there or the hard pass, he gets one in there.

那么如果你防守平坦的路,从他的立场出发,无论怎么选择,选崎岖之途收益是1,而选择平坦之途的收益也是1

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选