Why should we have happiness as our highest end, as our chief concern, as that which determines the motion of our life?

为什么把快乐作为最终目标，作为主要担心，为什么由它来决定生命活动？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Rather, what determines the size in the brain is the extent to which either they have motor command over it or sensory control.

相反,对运动的控制程度,或是对感觉的控制程度,决定了身体部位在大脑中对应区域的大小

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Out of all the genes that are on the human genome which fraction is this particular cell using, which fraction is it expressing determines what proteins are present in the cell, determines what work or what activities the cell can engage in.

人类基因组全部基因中的,特定细胞所表达的基因片段,细胞表达的是哪段基因,决定了细胞中存在什么样的蛋白,决定了细胞会有什么样的功能,或者参与何种生命活动

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Other days you have more normal intake, or you might be making up for the deficit the previous day and you might have more; and so which of those particular days gets chosen determines a lot on inferences made about a person's overall diet.

有些天你可能吃的比平时多,可以弥补前些天少吃的东西,甚至还要更多,这些特定日子的选择,对推断人的整体饮食,影响很大

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选