It describes Puerto Ricans in America, whether they are in New York or not.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

We are honoring instead the integrity of what they're saying without thinking about whether or not it might be true.

我们事实上反而在,尊重他们所说内容的真实性,却从未想过这到底是不是真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But calculating it alone doesn't necessarily tell us whether or not it will just happened of its own accord.

但是计算这些物理量并不一定能够告诉我们,这些变化是否会自发的进行,而这正是我们想要做到的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It made no difference whether the criticism was true or not.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

When you are searching a list to see whether it has an element, you don't randomly probe the list, hoping to find whether or not it's there.

当我们在一个数组中,寻找目标元素的时候,我们不会随机的调查数组来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

In England, I think we refer to these guys - whether it's technical or not - as "Evil gits."

在英格兰,我们把这种人叫,自私鬼,不知道这算不算术语

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"And no matter where you are in the world, that is a very important thing, to be proud of who you are and be able to let people hear what you have to say, whether they like it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

We should be able to try all things, to prove all things, and then decide whether or not we actually like it, whether it brings us some sort of pleasure or wisdom.

我们应该尝试所有东西，证实所有事情，然后决定我们是否真正喜欢它，它是否能带给我们快乐和智慧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Smith says it is not known whether or not Hariri's second attempt will be more successful.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

As long as my soul continues to exist it's still me whether or not my body's still alive.

只要我的灵魂继续存在,无论我的肉体是不是活着,我仍然存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I'm very happy about it." "I don't know whether this will be my main stopping point or not, but it certainly does give meanother option."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Whether or not it's a fact is completely immaterial to Eliza, it's completely immaterial to Henry Higgins, and it's completely immaterial to the outcome of My Fair Lady.

西班牙是否多雨都和女主角，或者男主角无关，或者和整部窈窕淑女都无关紧要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Whether or not it will bear as much fruit remains to be seen.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Whether it is intended or not, the missile launches serve as an implicit reminder to South Korea of the North's ability to inflict massive damage on very short notice.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

It has a gate on it and that gate is in open or close state depending on whether a ligand is present or not.

在这个通道上有个门,这个门是打开还是关闭,取决于配体到来与否

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is perception, whether it is true or not." Even within the government, concerns were raised by some ministers about the targeting of Saylan, especially during the final days of her life.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Whether we make mistakes or not, we got to keep after it.

不论会不会犯错，我们都必须支持。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"It seems that more clarity is likely to emerge about who did what to whom and whether or not war crimes, crimes against humanity and other very serious human rights abuses were committed by one or both sides,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Again whether you agree or not with the project is beside the point,it was the greatest,positively speaking, scientific project in history where the minds got together.

无论你是否同意这计划,积极来说，它都是最伟大的计划，聚集起了最优秀的人才。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"I think the threat to the country presented by this defection really relates to the issue of whether or not in the United States of America, our people want the majority to have whatever it wants without restraint, without a check or a balance,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

We have all become, whether we choose to admit it or not, Hobbesians.

不管你信或是不信，我都得说我们已经成了霍布斯笔下的那种公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

And the New Deal brought a fundamental new set of approaches, ideas, which we're still debating today; it's all over our political culture whether it's named or not.

而新政带来了一系列新的基本法则和理念,我们今天仍在辩论这些,无论是否承认,它都已渗透到我们的政治文化中

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It didn't really matter whether it was positive or not.

评价积极与否并不重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a violation of people's liberty for the government to force everyone whether they want to or not to put aside some earnings today for the sake of their retirement.

这侵犯了人们的自由,因为政府强迫所有人，不管愿不愿意,都得储蓄一部分当前收入，留到退休时用。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I want to make one other point before we launch into that, and that is the following: that composers use the rate of harmonic change-- whether it's changing or not changing-- to sort of make us feel different ways about the music that we are listening to.

在此之前我还要说一个问题，不管和声有没有改变，作曲家都能通过和声改变的频率-,让我们对所听的音乐有不同的感受-,它能让我们感受到这段音乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And in a moment I'll turn to evaluate whether it's a good argument or not, but I think it's a pretty interesting argument.

一会儿我会评估,这是不是个好的论证,但是我认为这是个很有趣的论证。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选