"To be,or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?"

VOA: special.2010.01.06

So the only really relevant strategy is to run or not to run, to stand or not to stand.

所以唯一相关的策略是要不要参选,要不要站出来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Use this pattern whenever you wish to express your intention to do or not to do something.

只要你想表达是否打算做某事，都能使用这个句型。

I will 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But how much TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But he also encourage people not to study philosophy, or not to end there, and to go study and do something that would actually fulfill the ethical mandates of philosophy.

但是他却告诉人们不要去学哲学，或是不要局限于哲学，而是要学些别的东西,因为其他的知识可以,实现哲学提出的道德任务。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Heather Heiman is a lawyer there. "We try not to demonize or vilify the international marriage brokerage industry as a whole.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

The licensing agent reads the book and determines whether or not to print it at all or license it to appear in print.

出版管理机构阅读后决定是坚决不许印刷,这本书还是许可它被印刷成册。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She also says the study does not prove that negative emotions or distrust lead to bad health effects and shorter life.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"

我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"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

Every regime is an answer consciously or not to the oldest political question of all ? who governs? Who should govern?

每一个政体都是答案，无论是否有此自觉,每一个都是最古老政治问题的答案,由谁统治？谁该被统治？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

And with respect to securities selection, you want to consider your skills and you want to consider the efficiency of markets when you're making your decisions as to whether or not to pursue passive management or active management.

证券选择方面,要考虑自身能力与市场有效性,从而决定,是采用被动型管理,还是主动型管理

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

or to exhort somebody to do something or not to do something.

或者劝告某人做或不做一些事情。

I'm sure 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If you are going out with your girlfriend,or boyfriend, you do not want another friend to go along on your date.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

.. And they might take -- And I will. I mean, I don't have the decision right now of whether or not to pay taxes.

他们就可能会-,我会是少数派，这下我就无权决定是否要缴税了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Adiabatic can be either reversible or not, and we're going to do that probably next time or two times.

绝热过程可以是可逆的，也可以不是，我们可能会在下一次或下下次课上,研究这个问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The reshaped cornea corrects the patient's bad eyesight so he or she does not have to wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

When you are searching a list to see whether it has an element, you don't randomly probe the list, hoping to find whether or not it's there.

当我们在一个数组中,寻找目标元素的时候,我们不会随机的调查数组来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Maybe even lots of snow. If you do not have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

If you have a Text-to-Speech Reader, and it comes across a website that has graphics Most likely it`s not gonna be or would like to read the graphics.

当你使用文字阅读器，遇到网页中的图片时,很可能阅读器,没办法读出图片来。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

An estimated seventeen percent of the labor force either lacks a job or is not working enough to pay all the bills.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

We can see how whether it's the same person or not has to turn on the relations between the stages.

我们可以看到，是否为同一人,必须依赖于人在两个时期的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

I would expect, whether you're a Red Sox fan or not, you to be able to look at a list of different pitchers and their average velocity for their fastball, and tell me who has the longest or the shortest wavelength.

无论你是否是一个红袜队球迷，我预想你会看到一系列,不同的投手和他们,投出快球的平均速度，告诉我谁有最长的,或者最短的波长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And any argument between us would not cause me to lose heart or feel a sense of loss.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Or it could be not having to do with the cells themselves but maybe the environment that the cell finds itself in.

这种不同也可能和细胞本身无关,而和细胞所处的环境的变化有关

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

When you want to know if something is transparent to visible light or not, here is the mystery material and here is visible light.

而我们知道,物体是否对可见光透明，这里是神秘的材料，这里是可见光。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选