From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

But it's a good story, Joule decided that there must be a direct relationship between work and heat.

所以说，这只是一个不错的故事而已，焦耳认为功和热之间,一定具有某种直接的联系。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It decided that building three railroads at the same time would be too difficult.

VOA: special.2009.04.23