At a news conference with Prime Minister Hatoyama, he was asked what more information he might conceivably need before making a decision.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

So, I want to stress the sense of natural development, not some kind of a central authority making a decision about anything.

我在这里强调,这是一种自然的发展方式,不是某种中央政权进行决议的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

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

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

Barack Obama in his decision-making is like a lawyer dissecting a case.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Right. - And I think that if he was making a decision to give his life and he took on the agency to sacrifice himself which some people might see as admirable and other people might disagree with that decision.

对，-我认为如果是他自己决定献出生命,如果是他自己提出要牺牲自己,也许有人会赞颂这种行为,而其他人也许会反对这个决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In its overview, GAO said the Office of Cuba Broadcasting lacks a formal strategic plan to guide decision-making on its funding and operations, including a proposal to reduce TV Mart newscasts from two 30 minute evening programs to five minute news updates every half hour.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

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

And the implications are that we'd like to build a confidential and dynamic theoria of decision-making that I can account for the widespread decisions that people making, those when they are inrrational reflected when they are not And we'd also like a better remapping of disease on sympton profiles, so that we can address those symptoms better.

其结论是,我们希望建立起有关决策的新兴学科,籍此来对人们的非理性决策，做出解释,同时我们也希望能够对疾病的症状作出更好的了解，从而能够更准确地确定病情。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选