Genes direct the making of proteins which do much of the work in building an organism, whether a person or a potato.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

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

Let's say that you and your co-workers are trying to make a decision about whether to put a plan forward.

假如你和你的同事正在讨论是否需要推进一个计划。

It depends on 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,it will be based on a simple principle: whether a state is ready to do what works.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And the truth of whether a book should or should not be censored is something that's come about through the diligent effort of a group, rather than a single arbitrary judge like the state licenser.

但一本书是否真正被控制,是一堆人努力的结果，而不是政府出版管理处的人员专横的决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The question was whether a business method is enough of an invention to receive a patent.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It has a gate on it and that gate is in open or close state depending on whether a ligand is present or not.

在这个通道上有个门,这个门是打开还是关闭,取决于配体到来与否

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That study asked them whether a patient's age and other illnesses might play a role in not recommending chemotherapy after surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

It should not be limited or constrained by any transcendent standards or moral laws that do not derive from politics itself, whether a law of God or some kind of transcendent moral order or code.

它不可以被任何超验的准则或道德条律所,限制和束缚，因为那些并非源自于,政治本身，无论那是上帝的法则，还是,某种超验的道德命令或准则。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And even some Democrats have been debating whether a reform bill should include a government-run insurance plan, known as a "public option."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

There's a big debate about whether this canon list was composed around the year 200 or around the year 400.

人们曾热烈争论过正典书目的形成时间,是形成于主后两百年还是主后四百年。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

One in 10 relied on advertising and one in five said that product reputation helped them determine whether a product is green.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

And we're having a difference of opinion as to whether we should use a tuple or a list here, right?

可以“是结果,明白了吗？我们队在这里是应该用数组,还是链表还有一些不同意见对吧？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He indicated the administration intends to make an assessment by year's end as to whether a diplomatic resolution of the nuclear issue is possible.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

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

He says it is not,however, appropriate to talk about whether a ransom payment was made.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

If you focus on some of the minutia of a site like this, you know, it's useful to be able to jump to a particular date whether in the future or in the past.

如果你关注像这样一个网站的一些细节，你会发现，若能跳转到,不论过去还是将来的一个特定日期，那将是很有用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It was an unusual Saturday night showdown in the U.S.Senate on whether a health care reform bill pushed by Democrats should proceed to the floor for full debate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Let's just get them together. Let's get them in a room, whether it was in Camp David,whether it was in Oslo or in Egypt.

我们把他们关到一个房间里吧，无论是在戴维营，奥斯陆或埃及。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But earlier Wednesday, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell said senior officials are considering whether a full counterinsurgency campaign, with large numbers of troops and civilians, is the right approach.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

But whether that's an aberration, or that it's a new trend is still too early to say right now whether we're a new growing trend or not.

但究竟这是意外现象，还是一股新趋势,要下定论现在还为时尚早,我们还无法确定这是不是新趋势。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But Weissman says the survey by Green Seal and the firm EnviroMedia Social Marketing shows that consumers are uncertain how to tell whether a product helps the environment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

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

Using just that large number of genetic markers, the team was able to predict in almost four out of five cases whether a person would live to be 100.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Now I am going to take some time to think about whether or not harmony is a good analogy, because I actually think it is a good analogy.

现在我要花点时间思考,和声是不是个好的类比，因为实际上我觉得它是个好的类比。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The court is also scheduled to consider whether a law that prohibits pictures of animal cruelty constitutes a violation of free speech under the 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

One might have to do with where it's from and how it's made so that might tell us a little bit about whether something should be defined as a food.

一个是关于食品源自何处,怎么生产的,这会给我们一些参考,去判断何为食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In an interview via Skype, Tom Perls said the same technique used to predict long life may also be used to predict whether a person might eventually develop certain diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

So, a natural product is something that is made by nature, and often natural products, whether it comes from a plant or a marine organism have some really good, useful properties. And so, one particular compound has anti-tumor properties. So, again, along this line of cancer research.

天然产物是在自然界中生成的,通常一个天然产物，不管是来自植物或者海洋生物,都有些非常好非常实用的性质，其中的一个特殊的化合物,可以治疗癌症,再一次我们又来到癌症研究上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So a lot depends, to answer your question, how one defines autism, and whether one includes Asperger syndrome, which is a limited, a more mild syndrome, as a form of autism.

所以要回答你的问题,就需要看看一个人是如何定义孤独症的,以及一个人是否将,轻微有限的阿斯伯格综合症,看做是孤独症的一种形式

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选