U.S.air travelers this busy holiday season appear divided over whether they would want to submit to body scanning.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And also, discuss the debate over whether such cases are true or not; whether they could be taken as a real phenomena or a made-up phenomena, which is--there is a matter of a lot of controversy.

同时也讨论一下,这种现象是否真实存在,我们应该将它看作是真实的心理现象,还是人们主观想象出来的,这个问题存在着许多的争论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"The high-pitched partisan debate over whether to invest in missile defense is no longer with us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Or whether or not they had no idea what they were doing, and they've given themselves over to this process.

还是说诗人并不完全理解自己写的文字，而是在创作过程中完全超然忘我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Government officials and opposition supporters have publicly sparred in recent days over whether the protests are unnecessarily distracting Pakistan from its battle against militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

Aristotle and Thomas Jefferson seem to disagree over the basic fact of human experience, whether it's equality or inequality.

亚里士多德和杰佛逊似乎对基本的,人类经历的事实有着不同看法，无论那是平等或不平等。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The development community is divided over whether non-profits should give away or sell technology and services as diverse as solar lighting, water filtration,healthcare and education.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

And what Alexander and his successors did was they took that basic Greek structure, and they transplanted it all over the Eastern Mediterranean, whether they were in Egypt or Syria or Asia Minor or anyplace else.

而亚历山大和他的继业者,把这些希腊式结构，移植到了地中海东部各地，无论是埃及，叙利亚，小亚细亚还是其他地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that despite an intensifying insurgency and uncertainty over whether U.S.President Barack Obama will send more troops, NATO will remain in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

I know you were all worried whether I'd survive over the break a couple days.

我知道你们都很担心，放假几天后那个人还是不是我。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Clinton acknowledged that the lingering election dispute has been one of the factors delaying a decision by President Barack Obama in his administration's policy review over whether to commit more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

And the New Deal brought a fundamental new set of approaches, ideas, which we're still debating today; it's all over our political culture whether it's named or not.

而新政带来了一系列新的基本法则和理念,我们今天仍在辩论这些,无论是否承认,它都已渗透到我们的政治文化中

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Lynn was referring to decades of controversy over whether it was possible to develop a missile that could hit and destroy an incoming missile in flight, and to do so at a reasonable and sustainable cost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

There has been, over the years a lot of turf battles between the SEC and the CFTC because it's sometimes unclear whether something is a security or a futures.

历年来,证券交易委员会和期货交易委员会的领域战争层出不穷,因为有时候很难说,一个东西究竟是证券还是期货。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Speaking to reporters Friday, Secretary Gates would not be drawn publicly into the debate over whether the troop-intensive counterinsurgency strategy is best or whether a more limited commitment involving air strikes and Special Forces operations would be better.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Now you can come to your own conclusions about whether that makes sense and we'll go over different dietary approaches as we go through subsequent classes If you compare ancient humans to what modern people eat, let's look at different constituents of the diet.

关于它是否合理,你们可以自己下结论,接下来让我们会,看看不同的饮食指南,让我们对比下古人和今人的饮食,首先是饮食结构的不同

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mister Miller says that what matters most is not whether the rank of cities changes over the years.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Shelly Kagan Whether or not I'm Shelly Kagan,the guy that was lecturing to you on Thursday, depends on whether,unbeknownst to me,over the weekend, somebody removed half of my brain,stuck it in some other torso, sealed me all back up.

我是否是上周四给你们讲课的，取决于周末在我不知情的情况下，是否有人移除我半个大脑放入另一躯体，然后合起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But she says the research does show the need to study whether or not there are long-lasting effects of repeated exposure over several years.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

But many non-scientists are unsure about whether humans evolved over millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

More recent research suggested that those gains are the same whether you exercise for short periods over five days or longer sessions over two or three days.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The debate comes amid controversy over banning minarets in neighboring Switzerland and as the French government considers whether to ban Muslim women from wearing a face-covering veil in public.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

So just as no-smoking zones have expanded over the years, she suggests that city planners, for example,should consider whether their decisions might promote or hinder the development of personal relationships.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Kelly said the results of the inspection of the Qom plant, and Tehran's final decision on the uranium export plan, will figure heavily in big-power discussions on whether to seek further punitive action against Iran over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Speaking via Skype,she says no. "I think further studies will be necessary to show whether the differences we've demonstrated depending on delivery mode of babies when they first emerge into the world actually carry over time, and whether those differences might contribute to health outcomes."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But some Pakistani political factions and the country's powerful military have been bitterly critical of provisions in the legislation which,among other things, requires the Obama administration to report to Congress every six months on whether Pakistan's newly-democratic government is exercising effective civilian control over the military.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "There is a general feeling I could say that with all these additional troops and all these additional efforts that everybody is making to get to the elections in Afghanistan, to have a free and fair election and then see over the next months whether we can begin to shift the momentum,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11