We cannot tell whether they are 'blood diamonds' or not." "That will be part of the investigation because you still need people to say "Yes,I know these diamonds;
VOA: standard.2010.08.09
And they're awfully simple because, all I can do now, is decide whether to execute some piece of code or another.
它们之所以太简单的原因是:,现在我能做的,就是,决定执行一块代码或者执行另外一块。
Right? That would be an entirely different matter, wouldn't it, because you would have absolutely no idea whether the question was rhetorical or grammatical, right?
对吧,那将会是一个完全不同的情况,难道不是吗,因为你就会完全不知道,这个问句是修辞型的还是语法型的,对吧?
I don't actually know whether it's deserved or not, because Yale does not publish information about what the grading averages are.
我不知道这名声是不是我应得的,因为耶鲁并没有对什么是普通的评分标准,发表文章。
We don't know whether this was because he didn't want to take the chance or because he believed in categorical moral principles.
不知道他是因为不愿意冒这个险呢,还是因为他信奉绝对主义道德原则。
And when we're looking at the probability density graphs, it doesn't make a difference, it's okay, It has no meaning for our actual plot there, because we're squaring it, so it doesn't matter whether it's negative or positive, all that matters is the magnitude.
它的概率密度图的时候,两者没什么区别,这是可以的,它对我们画这个图,没有什么意义,因为我们是取平方,所以它的正负,无所谓,只和幅值有关,但当我们说到。
I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.
我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器,比如呼吸机,还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。
I did not just introduce whether it's in the readings or in the lectures ideas just because they are interesting for the sake of the idea.
无论是论文还是讲座,我不会因为,某个理论有趣而去介绍它。
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。
I don't know whether it's easier for gentlemen or not because our voices are sort of in the bass, but maybe this is payback time since ladies are always singing the melody.
我不知道是否男人更容易唱出低声部,因为我们的嗓音本来就低,不过这也可能是女士们报复的时间到了,她们总是得唱旋律。
It's important to notice something when it's new because then you have to decide whether it's going to harm you, how to deal with it, to attend to it, but you can't keep on noticing it.
能够注意到新鲜事物的出现是非常重要的,因为你需要确定它是否会对你造成伤害,需要确定如何去处理这个新鲜刺激,但你不能一直去注意它。
A food frequency--by the way, you also have the issue of whether the particular twenty-four hours that a person is interviewed is representative of their diet overall, because you can imagine how much your food intake varies from day to day.
食物摄取频率,顺便说下,还有一个问题,就是在选取的24小时里,测试者,是不是对总体有代表性,因为你可以想象,每天事物的摄入量都是不同的
So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.
这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中
One of the things that's interesting about that is you can see pottery styles that you can hardly tell whether they came from one end of the Mediterranean or another, if they're of the Mycenaean variety, because it was a single culture.
一个有趣的现象是,你可以鉴别出陶器的风格,但你却很难区分,它来自于地中海的哪一边,因为它们都属于同一文明
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。
Because of this policy, I don't actually know when all is said and done whether at the end of the semester I'm any harder, whether I depart from the average or not.
因为这个政策,我其实不知道当所有的说完,和做完是否在学期结束我评分更严格,是否我偏离了平均水平。
One of the reasons for thinking it's not clear whether the argument fails or not is because it's hard to pin down, where exactly did it go wrong?
并不能确定这个论证是否成立,的其中一个原因就是,我们很难确定,到底是哪里出了问题
the first reason that we gave and we are just finishing up is because the question that we ask, whether it's the research questions that we ask, or the questions that we ask of ourselves, or our partners,matter.
我们之前讨论完的第一个原因是,我们提出的问题很重要,无论它是不是我们的研究问题,或我们为自己所问的,或为我们的伴侣问的。
A lot of journals do blind reviewing now because of the evidence I talked about before regarding sexual stereotypes, that whether it has a male name or a female name makes a difference. So those are not-- those are group level in that they're not saying, "You get rid of your prejudices by trying harder."
现在很多报刊都审查论文都是匿名的,原因就是我刚才讲的,性别刻板印象,名字会透露作者是男性或女性,这样会影响审查公正,所以…,这些群体要摆脱刻板印象,并不是一味压抑就行的“
If something is good just because it is pleasurable, what does it matter whether you have sort of an abstract idea of whether it is good by someone else's sense or not?
既然令人喜爱的事物就是好的,那么何必在乎,别人对它的感受如何,这般抽象的观念呢?
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