In a disputed decision, officials took the wild condors into captivity so that their breeding could be supervised and protected.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

In cases where you have a hard decision to make, you know you're not racist.

假如你碰上一个难以抉择的情况，你知道你不是种族主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And your workout routine is getting in the way of your job. You have to make a decision.

但是你的健身计划开始影响到工作。你不得不做一个选择。

There is no 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He told him that a strong decision in the Dred Scott case might do much to bring peace to the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're doing something or you're arguing for something or making a decision for reasons that you can't fully articulate?

你是否曾发现自己,在没有充分的理由的情况下做出某事,为某事争论，或是做出了某个决定？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

These suggest that before employees make a decision, they should "consider how it would look in a news story."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The second area that we've looked is in a context of mental health, which one can reframe as chronic biases and some of these components are going to decision making.

我们观察的第二个区域则负责人的心理健康，这一区域在长期偏好,以及类似成分对决策作出影响时发生重组。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

And in those cases having the biomarker which adds a little bit of information may be helpful in terms of decision making.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They said their decision would include a statement that Congress did have power over slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In both you have the flood coming about as the deliberate result of a divine decision; you have one individual who's chosen to be saved from the flood; that individual is given specific instructions on building an ark, and is given specific instructions on who to bring on-board the ark.

在两个故事中，洪水爆发都是神的旨意,也只有被选中的人，才能幸免于难,上帝告诉这个人，怎么造方舟,并详细规定了,可以带上方舟的物种。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The next major change in Winslow Homer's life was a decision to work in a new medium.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People often add an apostrophe to "its" in a sentence like "The group made its decision."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Or as he puts it a little bit later whoever is entitled to participate in an office involving deliberation or decision-making is a citizen of the city. Listen to the words he uses there in describing a citizen.

或像他稍后提到的,任何具参与官职资格的人,包含商议或决策，就是城市的公民,注意他所使用的字眼,看他如何形容公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Their case reached the Supreme Court, and in a five-to-four decision on Monday they won.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

What you see is a bump up in activation in this nucleus accumbens in this area right when people see the product long before they are going to make a decision which continues.

这张图是受试者在见到商品之后,这一区域的伏隔核活动骤然攀升,而这种情况早在受试者作出决定之前,就已经发生，而且持续了下来。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

But the decision to drop the Bush missile-defense plan brought a mixed reaction in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

A judge may overrule a jury's decision in some situations, but that is unusual.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Cassatt had to make a decision: Would she paint in a way that received public approval or in a way that she found interesting and exciting?

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Rossiter was in court to hear this landmark decision. Helped by a nurse,he arrived in a specially fitted wheelchair.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Political experts see Governor Crist's decision to run as an independent as the latest example of a growing trend in U.S.politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

She says she does not understand why weeks of meetings are needed in order for the U.S.government to make a decision.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Although he called the U.S. decision to lift restrictions on Cuban-Americans to visit or send money to relatives in Cuba a "positive step,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Experts such as Stephen Jones at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts say Mr.Saakashvili's decision to attack South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali,was a colossal mistake.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

And this is a situation in which I think this decision process should not be rushed,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The president has been reluctant to make a decision while Afghanistan's political future was in doubt.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Attorney General Holder recently defended his decision in a recent hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The strategy review is expected to be completed in the coming weeks, and to be followed by a decision on General McChrystal's troop request.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"She is pushed to the point where a decision has to be made in this one;

VOA: standard.2010.07.07