And with only two months left and numerous hurdles remaining, questions are being raised about whether nations can narrow their differences in time.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

It requires the citizens are informed, not just informed, well-informed enough to know whether they are being adequately served.

公民需要了解，不仅仅是了解，要很好地了解他们是否,得到了政府的良好服务。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This God is one who brings things into being, whether it's a cosmos from chaos, or now a new nation from a band of runaway slaves.

这个上帝使是一切得以存在的根源，不论是由混乱而来的宇宙秩序，或者是由一帮逃窜奴隶而来的新国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I don't think at this stage, nobody knows whether BP will be forced to be broken up, whether it might actually end up being so weakened that it falls into the arms of somebody else."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

By experiencing these emotions, whether the ups and the downs, what you are doing is being, being a human being.

通过体会这些情绪，不论是起是落，你正在做的是，作一个人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"Well,there were a lot of situations throughout the entire course of the film whether we were all wrapped up in cables floating through an elevator shaft or whether we were being soaked by a massive water tank that was blasting around us."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

What I'm considering right now is the question whether sameness of soul is the key to being the same person.

我现在考虑的问题是,同样的灵魂,是否就是成为同一个人的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If you are expressing an opinion, in other words, which differs radically from my own, I can't understand, according to Gadamer, whether or not you're being ironic.

换句话说，如果你在表达一个,与我所持观点彻底相反的观点时，葛达玛认为我并不能理解你是不是在讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the very, sort of, nature of being an institution constrains almost everybody whether it's, in our case, all our investors have thirty-day liquidity.

但是，投资机构的本质在一定程度上束缚了,它所处市场里的每一个人，在我们的案例中，我们所有的投资者都拥有强大的现金流。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is a much scarrier idea than saying I have this, I'm going to do it, I'm going to put it down there as opposed to being open to what may come and being uncertain whether that would be something good enough.

这和，我知道了，我要做这个，我想写这个，这种确定感相比,对可能的结果保持一种开放的心态，不知道,期待能否满足的未知感相比，更挑战一些。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now the natural alternative is to say, the key to being the same person is not the sameness of the soul, whether or not it exists, ! but rather having the very same--body!

现在还有一个理论认为，成为同一个人的关键,不在于是否有同样的灵魂，先不管灵魂是否存在，而是拥有同样的--肉体！

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There it wouldn't be possible to invoke an intention because the whole complication of Derrida is precisely to raise the question about not knowing, not being able to voice the differance between difference and differance and not knowing whether Archie is right or whether Edith is right.

这里它不可能引起一个意图,以为德里达的复杂之处恰恰在于,提出一类问题，有关不知道的，说不出来的,像是区别和延异之间的差别,也不知道阿齐和依迪斯谁对谁错。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选