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

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

specifically for the duration of the project whether it be a TV series or a one-off project,

特别是项目实施期间，无论是电视连续剧还是一次性项目，

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.14

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

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

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

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Well, I'm just wondering what Locke's view is on once you have a government that's already in place, whether it is possible for people who are born into that government to then leave and return to the state of nature?

我只想知道洛克对此会怎么想,一旦政府已经成立了，其中出生的人们，是否有可能,脱离它，而重新回到自然状态呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

So tens or hundreds of millions of dollars would go into a study like this by the time it was completed, money that could have been used for other things, to test whether eating a low fat diet would reduce risk for breast cancer.

数以百万计的美元,投入到这样的研究,当研究结束时,本可以用来做其他事情的钱,被用来检测是否低脂膳食,可降低患乳腺癌风险

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The test of this then is to have blind auditions where people do their auditions behind a screen so you can't tell whether they're man or a woman, or for that matter, white or black or Asian or whatever.

然后他们进行闭幕试演以作测试,演奏的人被一块屏风挡住,看不出演奏的是男人还是女人，或者白人还是黑人，亚洲人还是其他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选