A new study suggests that venture capitalists rarely consider the business plan when deciding whether to invest in a new company.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

If you focus on some of the minutia of a site like this, you know, it's useful to be able to jump to a particular date whether in the future or in the past.

如果你关注像这样一个网站的一些细节，你会发现，若能跳转到,不论过去还是将来的一个特定日期，那将是很有用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So in a sense, it's all the same to me as a shareholder whether they pay dividends or they repurchase shares.

所以某种意义上,对股东来说是一样的,不管是支付股利还是回购股票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And they will study whether it is involving in controlling sleep quantity alone, or also what scientists call the "wakefulness-behavioral drive."

VOA: special.2009.08.26

The section leaders,once they get to know you, they'll actually be looking to see whether ; the people in their section are missing a bunch of lectures; and I've asked them to take notes.

学术组组长认识你们以后，会留意,同组组员是不是缺了很多课;,我关照让他们做记录了。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Genes direct the making of proteins which do much of the work in building an organism, whether a person or a potato.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

It turns out they're relatively simple to find even -- when they've been deleted whether accidentally - or in some cases intentionally-- that too is part of the job undeleting things that people had deleted.

原来，这些图片的模式很容易找到,即使他们已经被删除,无论是因为意外还是有人故意为之-,要恢复已删除的东西,需要做这部分的工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And that is global-- whether it's China, whether it's in the UK or Australia, or the United States.

这是全球现象-,不论是中国，英国还是澳大利亚，或美国。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Sometimes a difference in spelling can identify whether the person with the name is male or female.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

What we'll ask ourselves next time is whether or not the body theorist is in a better situation.

下一讲我们就来讨论,肉体理论家能否幸免于难。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says the team will now study whether female partners of the men in the study experienced any reduction of risk of the diseases.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

since all the information is in the current price, you don't have to worry about whether it went up or down yesterday, to decide what it's going to do today.

因为当前价格代表了所有信息，你就不需要去考虑昨天股价,是涨了还是跌了，再去判断它今天的价格会怎么变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said territorial governments should be formed in the other parts of the western territories, with no immediate decision on whether slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So we have four choices in terms of initial and final energy levels, and also what it means - in terms of the electron -- whether it's gaining energy or whether it's going to be emitting energy?

我们有这四个选项,各有不同的初始能量和末能量,它都是按照电子来说的,不管是失去能量还是得到能量？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ted Kennedy asked voters in Massachusetts whether he should resign from the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Whether you take the elevator to the top of the Hancock Tower or whether you walk up the stairs, the change in gravitational potential is identical.

不管你是乘电梯,去大厦的顶层,或者是步行，重力势能的变化是相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

You got to assign a dollar value to know whether you want to prevent those deaths by banning the use of cell phones in cars.

你必须用金钱来衡量,是否需要禁止司机使用手机,来避免此类事件发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

There is legal homicide, of course, judicial death and so on in the Bible, but illicit homicide, whether intentional or unintentional, murder or accidental homicide. The manslayer bears blood guilt, what is referred to as "blood guilt."

当然，合理的杀人是有的，审判处死或者其他的一些，但是非法杀戮，不管有意无意，谋杀或意外杀人，杀人者犯了杀人罪，杀人罪指什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

I don't know whether they had intelligence of recent the car bomb in Time Square.

我不知道他们最近有没有搜集,时代广场的汽车炸弹的情报。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The economic recession is also affecting Diwali buying, jewelers say in general the pieces are smaller, whether gold, platinum or diamonds.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

I don't know whether the average undergrad at the University of Arizona just has a sunny personality or whether they "Spent too long in the sun."

亚利桑那大学的毕业生,是都很阳光呢,还是他们"在阳光下晒得太久了"

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"An empowered group of ministers has been set up to study whether any changes in the law are necessary.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

to the process whereby the heavenly angels not only eat food but they also digest it; and Milton lets us know, whether we want to know or not, how those angels actually excrete the food they have taken in.

去描述天堂的天使不只吃食物而且要消化它的过程,弥尔顿让我们知道，不管我们想不想，这些天使怎样排泄出他们吃的食物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This always raises the question that you will discuss in your section, whether or not Socrates' censorship of poetry and the arts is an indication of his totalitarian impulses.

这一向会唤出,你们在讨论时间会遇到的问题，苏格拉底对诗学与艺术的审查,是否点出,他的极权念头。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选