"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

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

Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

On Sunday,Emanuel said the main question now is whether there will be a credible Afghan government to help provide security and government services, if foreign troops are able to reverse recent Taliban gains.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

We want to figure out if the harmony is changing, and if it is changing whether it's changing at a regular or irregular rate.

一是判断和声是否发生了变化，二是如果发生了变化，和声的变化频率是规则还是不规则的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As a matter of fact,if things were perfectly efficiently priced, there wouldn't be any opportunity to generate excess returns and if you make active bets--if you make bets against the market -then whether you win or lose has to do with luck.

事实上,如果资产都是有效定价的,那么根本不可能获得任何超额收益,如果你主动一搏,要从市场中获利,那么无论得失都只能靠运气了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

And so, he has put this chemistry to use in this robotic arm and they call it Fido, because often dogs are the creatures that have to go out and detect these things, and it's not a great job if you're a dog to be sent out to see whether there was an explosive and discover yes, there was, a little bit too late.

因为通常都是派狗去检查这些东西,这个不是个好工作，如果你是一只狗,被派去检查是否有爆炸物，然后你发现有,那就来不及了,所以用机器手检查化学物质。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And the difficulty with that approach, even if we break the question, whether not there're souls, the difficulty at the approach was that it seems as though the soul could constantly be changing while the personality who might call stays the same.

这种前提的难点在于，即使我们将问题分解，先不管灵魂是否存在，难点还在于,似乎灵魂可以,不断地改变，而人格,这个重要的方面，却保持不变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The goldsmith would accept that as part of an extension of the business as a goldsmith, especially if the gold was in the form of coins and people didn't care whether they got the same coins back.

金匠会接受这个请求,作为金匠生意的衍生项目,尤其是,需要保存的是金币,人们不在乎,他们拿回的金币是不是原来送去的那些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We'll talk about whether food can promote health; of course it can if done right, and we'll talk about the specific properties of food that promote good health and what can be done to increase the opportunity of food to improve the public's health in a national and international way.

我们将讨论食物是否能促进健康,当然,适当的饮食能促进健康,我们还将讨论健康食品的特殊性质,以及我们如何,通过食物来提高,全国乃至全世界公众的健康水平

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选