And when you declare a variable, whether as an argument or as literally a local variable, they only live inside of that function.

当你声明一个变量，不论是一个参数,还是一个局部变量，它们只存在函数的内部。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so we should base morality, whether we're thinking about what to do in our own lives or whether as legislators or citizens, we're thinking about what the laws should be.

所以我们应以道德为基准，不管是在考虑个人行为时,还是作为立法者或普通公民，考虑如何立法时。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

As you build these kinds of simulations, or anything like this, you need to think through whether things should be multiplicative or additive.

正如你建立各种仿真程序，或者类似的仿真程序时，你应该去想一想,他们应该是用加法还是用乘法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So in a sense, it's all the same to me as a shareholder whether they pay dividends or they repurchase shares.

所以某种意义上,对股东来说是一样的,不管是支付股利还是回购股票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Again, a question the book asks is whether that ideal of justice can be used as a model for politics.

而本书所提问的是,理想的正义,是否能为政治起示范的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's about getting rid of limitations, of barriers, whether it's the fear of failure, something that we didn't have as kids.

也就是摆脱限制，阻碍，或者对失败的恐惧，这些东西在并不是与生俱来的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And I think if you are outside, whether you are walking or sitting, paying attention as a spiritual practice is really not only seeing, but having all of your senses engaged in what's going on is important.

我想如果你在户外，无论是走，或是坐，作为感受灵性的实践,所谓的注意，并不仅仅是看，而是调动你所有的感官,来感受身边的一切，这才是要点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.

场景是作者在面临权威坚持提出反对意见时,是否妥协你想要表达的内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As long as my soul continues to exist it's still me whether or not my body's still alive.

只要我的灵魂继续存在,无论我的肉体是不是活着,我仍然存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'll talk about whether food can be addictive, as I mentioned just a moment ago.

我们将讨论食物是否会使人上瘾,这我刚才也提到过

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There is legal homicide, of course, judicial death and so on in the Bible, but illicit homicide, whether intentional or unintentional, murder or accidental homicide. The manslayer bears blood guilt, what is referred to as "blood guilt."

当然，合理的杀人是有的，审判处死或者其他的一些，但是非法杀戮，不管有意无意，谋杀或意外杀人，杀人者犯了杀人罪，杀人罪指什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now, you might have different views around-- People around this room will have different views as to whether reincarnation really exists, but we can imagine it.

你可能有些不同的观点,是关于,对于转世投胎是否真的存在,在座的各位可能会有很多不同的看法,但我们可以想象一下

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are.

换言之，我们曾说过在思想史上，首先你要知道,关注感知者和被感知者之间距离的运动，这种关注会让我们怀疑,自己是否弄清楚了事物的本来面目。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people.

还有一些亲奴制的作者,在某种程度上,或不知廉耻或未曾意识到,他们错误地看待了奴隶制,他们更看重奴隶制对白人的影响,而不是对黑人种族本身的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选