They studied the pictures for signs of AMD and to see whether smoking influenced the womens chances of developing the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Not saying that the external circumstances are not important, we should focus also on improving them,bettering them, whether for ourselves,for society at large.

并不是说，外部环境不重要，我们同样应该注重改善外部环境，无论是我们自己，或对整个社会。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But if you are so inclined whether for this problem set or any other throughout the term, you can change your mind week to week.

但是如果你倾向哪套题,那么你可以按周改变想法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There are some patients for whom physicians are really on the fence about whether to give one therapy or another.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

And for some people the balance is positive, " for some people perhaps the balance is negative, " whether for their life as a whole " or for certain stretches of their lives."

对某些人，结果是正数，“对某些人结果是负数，“不管是他们的一生,“或者他们生命的一段时间“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We will use the best evidence available to determine whether a state can meet a few key benchmarks for reform.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And so what this gave us was a very, very useful general criterion for determining whether something happened spontaneously.

这个告诉我们的是一个,非常非常一般的判据,他能帮助我们判断一个过程是否自发进行。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Experts are not sure whether this tribe placed bodies in caves as part of burial ceremonies or for other reasons.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Again, a question the book asks is whether that ideal of justice can be used as a model for politics.

而本书所提问的是,理想的正义,是否能为政治起示范的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The northern victory had settled for all time the question of whether states could leave the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

And he writes, for example, to Mary: "I am moreover undecided whether I ought to continue to hold slaves."

于是他便写给玛丽,比如这段,"我无法确定,我是否该继续拥有那些奴隶"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Paul Katz says they wanted to create a great musical experience for people whether or not they are fans of the "Twilight" movies.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

I'm not sure whether we'll use the Classes server to have you sign up for discussion sections online, or whether we will do it the old-fashioned way and have you sign up on forms that we'll give you here in class.

我还没想要是用校网站,让大家在线讨论，还是用传统的,课堂讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

For years,people have wondered whether they are safe from germs when they travel in small,enclosed areas.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

When Dean and Carlo are talking to each other, there's a lot of anxiety on either part about whether they have actually attained that thing that they were looking for.

当迪恩和卡洛在说话时，双方都有种焦虑,不知道他们是否真正得到了他们所追寻的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

For example, the court will have to rule on whether companies with majority foreign ownership can enjoy the same expanded rights of political speech.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

So I don't think that anyone who's capable of understanding my views, and therefore obviously competent to decide for themselves whether they want to go on living should feel threatened by what I'm saying.

所以对于那些能够,理解我的观点的人们，和那些能够决定,是否要活下去的人们,我的言论并不会对他们产生威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

More recent research suggested that those gains are the same whether you exercise for short periods over five days or longer sessions over two or three days.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

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

Prospects for peace hinge largely on the key issue of whether the two sides can agree on the status of Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Instead of running for president, the senator was asking voters in Massachusetts whether he should resign from the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

And that has very important implications for whether government responds or doesn't respond to these issues.

这些极大地影响了,政府是否会对此做出回应

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This man was incredulous. "I heard like a big ringing around but I didn't understand whether it was for real,understand?

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

It is that most of us are really making money for ourselves-- that's what we do with our lives--and whether or not that is moral.

我们绝大多数人,都在为自己赚钱,这就是我们生活的方式,赚钱方式也无论道德与否

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

President Obama says he will take his time in deciding whether to deploy more troops for the Afghan war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The final project for this course, as you know is a presentation that you'll give whether it's for the students or the extension school students.

这门课的最后一份作业，是由你们做一次报告,选修和专修学生都要做。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Radiologists say patients should ask their doctors whether tests using radiation are needed, and,if so, ask for the lowest dose possible.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Suppose, whether these are actually your payoffs or not, pretend they are for now.

不管这是不是真的就是你们收益,假设这就是你们的收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选