A new study suggests that venture capitalists rarely consider the business plan when deciding whether to invest in a new company.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

And I think what we decide to do in our congregation here whether it's Christian, Muslim or Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist,whatever.

我认为我们对于在国内的集会中做什么的决定,无论是基督教，穆斯林,犹太教，印度教，佛教，不管哪种。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

Experts are not sure whether this tribe placed bodies in caves as part of burial ceremonies or for other reasons.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

now you have this object which is going to tell you whether other things are in thermal equilibrium now.

现在你有了一个可以告诉你,其他物体是否处于,热平衡的物体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And they will study whether it is involving in controlling sleep quantity alone, or also what scientists call the "wakefulness-behavioral drive."

VOA: special.2009.08.26

But as I look at it, whether in reality or in my mind's eye, I'm looking at it from a perspective.

但我看着这个的时候，当我的脑中浮现画面，我就是从某个视角在看的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

We can define it in a couple of different ways depending on whether we're talking about sample mean or population mean.

我们有几种不同的方式去定义这个概念,取决于我们指的是,样本均值还是总体均值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Genes direct the making of proteins which do much of the work in building an organism, whether a person or a potato.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

It turns out they're relatively simple to find even -- when they've been deleted whether accidentally - or in some cases intentionally-- that too is part of the job undeleting things that people had deleted.

原来，这些图片的模式很容易找到,即使他们已经被删除,无论是因为意外还是有人故意为之-,要恢复已删除的东西,需要做这部分的工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

All right, so we can now see a little bit of what the power of molecular orbital theory is in predicting what kind of bonds we're going to see in molecules, or whether or not we'll see this bonding occur at all.

好了，我们已经可以看到一点,分子轨道理论在预测分子中,所成的键或者分子，能不能成键方面的能力了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

But in many regards, it is a matter of space, a matter of supplies, a matter of security where issues come out which don't really matter whether you believe in religion or not.

但是就各种方面来说，是关乎空间，关乎资源供应，关乎安全,这些问题并不一定和你,是否有宗教信仰有关。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I want a grandchild.I'll be seventy in July, and I just -- whether they get married or not, I want a grandchild."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

Python So I'm using the Python try except to check whether or not the thing is in the memo or not.

所以我将让,去调用except去判断该物品,是否已经在memo中。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Sometimes a difference in spelling can identify whether the person with the name is male or female.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Not asking the right questions as well, whether it's in managing organizations, whether it's managing our lives.

没有问正确的问题，不论是在管理组织，还是在管理我们的生活。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

It has a gate on it and that gate is in open or close state depending on whether a ligand is present or not.

在这个通道上有个门,这个门是打开还是关闭,取决于配体到来与否

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

There was some question whether Brown should be tried in a federal court or a state court.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

We're going to ask everybody in this row whether they want to enter or not.

我们要问这排里的每一个人,是否要参选

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In many countries there are a few natural bottlenecks, whether it be large data centers or right-of-ways."

VOA: special.2011.02.21

It asks, in other words, whether all values are commensurable.

换句话说，是否所有价值都可以计价。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

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

He says the team will now study whether female partners of the men in the study experienced any reduction of risk of the diseases.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

To some extent, if we put you in an fMRI scanner and observed what you're doing in real time, by looking at the activity patterns in your brain we can tell whether you are thinking about music or thinking about sex.

某种程度来讲,如果我们对你进行,功能性核磁共振成像扫描,观察你的实时活动,通过观察你的大脑活动模式,我们可以看出你是想到了音乐,还是想到了性

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I really have no idea whether it's a fact, and it's not important in My Fair Lady whether it's a fact.

我真的不知道这是不是真的，但是它在窈窕淑女里面真实与否并不重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选