"What we're going through in asking ourselves, 'Okay,we know what the goal is, is what we're going most likely to achieve that goal, is what a very decisive and intelligent commander-in-chief would do,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The question we're asking is, "Is there a good reason to add to our list of things there are?

我们的问题是,有没有一个很好的理由,让我们往已写有东西的清单上再添上几笔

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We usually use this pattern when the question that you're asking about relates directly to the person you're speaking with.

当你在询问与谈话对方直接有关的话题时，你可以使用这个句型。

Do you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I think it is important for the American people and all of us to have a genuine discussion debate as everyone has said about the strategy, the exist strategy with clarity and that is precisely what we're asking,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So specifically, what we're asking here is as we go across the periodic table, we want to consider which has the smaller ionization energy.

具体地说，我们这里要问的是,从周期表来看，你认为,哪一个元素的电离能更低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"First of all, we're asking to organize a corridor, not simply open the border, but to deploy some forces, which could lead people out who cannot get out of their houses, who are under siege, to help them cross the border, at least into Uzbekistan because it is the nearest country."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

But now that we're here,we're in a position perhaps to raise the question, should we be asking what it takes to survive?

现在我们必须想要提出的问题应该是，要怎样才能生存？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It has to be complex, because we're asking the immune system to be able to respond to every potential foreign pathogen that we come into contact with.

免疫系统是十分复杂的,因为我们需要免疫系统,能够对我们身体接触到的,任何潜在的外来病原体进行反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Now, I want to ask a question that we're going to need to think about, the two of you sitting up front here, when I was asking you how you responded to it. Can we have a moral response to this novel?

现在，我想要问你们一个我们将要思考的问题，就你们俩吧，坐在前面的，当我问你们如何回应,我们可以对这部小说有一个道德反思吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We're just asking what's the mass of any object?

我们只是问物体的质量是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

We're not asking you to change anything; in fact it's best for this particular exercise to eat as you typically would so you can get a sense of what an average day would be like for you.

我们不是要求你去改变什么,事实上,对于这个作业来说,保持以前的饮食习惯是最好的,以便了解自己平时的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

What we're going to do is, we're asking the question, what is the maximum, choosing S1, of this profit.

下面我们要问问我们自己,选S1下利润的最大值是多少呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

As long as we understand that what we're not asking about there is life of my body.

只要我们清楚,我们问的不是肉体里是否有生命这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And we're asking,Which one do you want to be tortured?

然后我们问，你希望哪一个被折磨？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're asking, "Is there life after death?"

我们问的是,死后能否继续活着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But we're not asking, is it rational or irrational to not believe that your body's going to die, we're simply asking, noting the fact that, there to seem to be cases where people are surprised to discover that they're mortal.

但我们不是在探讨不相信肉体的死亡,是否合理，我们只是提出，人们发现，有人可能对发现自己将会死亡,感到非常出乎意料。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So we're about to spend a lot of time asking the philosophical question: Is there life after death?

我们需要花很多时间,去谈论这个哲学问题,死后能否继续活着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And now we're asking you to look at krypton, so the atomic mass is 36. You can actually just grab that handout the second handout on the exam and look at the periodic table there. So, which of the following ions listed is isoelectronic with krypton?

现在我们请大家来看一下氪原子，它的原子量是，36，大家其实可以拿出这张讲义,第二份关于考试的讲义,看一下上面的周期表，那么，下列离子中，哪一个是与氪原子是等电子的？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So we're asking the metaphysical question: What kind of a thing is a person?

所以我们在讨论的是一个哲学问题,人是一种什么样的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And we're asking: Is that the very same space-time worm as the one we picked out previously or a different space-time worm ? than the one we picked out previously?

然后我们问：,这条时空虫,跟我们之前指的一样吗,还是和我们之前指的,不是同一条时空虫？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're going to spend the next couple of weeks asking ourselves different aspects of the question, what should our response be to the fact of our death and the specific features of death ? and the nature of death that we've been exploring?

我们将在接下来几个星期里,问自己这个问题的不同方面，什么应该是我们对一直探究的,死亡的事实和死亡的特征,及死亡的本质的回应？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're asking the question, taking S2 as given, what S1 maximizes this expression and as the gentleman at the back said, I'm going to differentiate and then I'm going to set the thing equal to 0.

我们来讨论在S2已知的情况下,S1的最大值是多少,就像坐在后排的先生说的那样,我们要去求导然后令导数等于0

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选