"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

Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The political analyst believes Cairo would be better off to focus on issues close to home, whether successful or not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

I would expect, whether you're a Red Sox fan or not, you to be able to look at a list of different pitchers and their average velocity for their fastball, and tell me who has the longest or the shortest wavelength.

无论你是否是一个红袜队球迷，我预想你会看到一系列,不同的投手和他们,投出快球的平均速度，告诉我谁有最长的,或者最短的波长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Whether or not that is the case remains to be seen, but that was the idea behind his resignation,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

People began, like in any business, to be attentive to whether or not they were early enough.

哪行都是这样,人们都开始留意自己是否来得够早

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"My door is open but irrespective of whether or not any Republicans , and I do think there will be , I am going to move forward anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Sierra Leonean law is clear. Anyone who "maliciously" publishes defamatory material could be put in jail for up to three years, whether or not what they have written is true.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

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

having distinguished between what we've called the death of the body and the death of the person, the question whether or not you're going to die needs to be distinguished.

在我们分清了,肉体的死亡,和个人的死亡后，关于你是否会死的问题,也需要进行分辨。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

when the project was presented not only the sponsors but also the business heads that would be the top two layers of the organization listen to the project, evaluate them, and then feedback whether or not they would be taking them forward and putting them into practice.

在将项目呈现给,该组织的最高层,即主办方和业务主管时,我们让他们,听项目报告并进行评价，然后针对是否会,录用他们并让他们,参与实践给出反馈。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And let's just suppose the correct theory of personal identity is Van Inwagen such as to put aside any worries we might have along with van Inwagen, that we discussed previously, as to whether or not on resurrection day that would really be you or not. Suppose it would be you.

假设正确的个人认同感理论是这样的,例如将之前讨论,理论时的种种担忧放在一边，也就是审判日当天,到底是不是真的你，我们假设就是你。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Whether that's right or not depends on just how bad would it be to be immortal.

它是否正确,取决于永生会有多糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The question whether or not you believe you're going to die needs to be distinguished.

人是否相信,自己会死亡的问题也需要进行分辨。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think the simple fact of the matter is we don't know enough about consciousness yet to know whether or not it can be explained in physical terms.

一个简单的事实就是,我们对于意识了解甚少,还不知道是否能使用物理的方式对其进行解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

At the end of last class,I began to raise the question as to whether or not we should distinguish two questions that we would normally be inclined to run together.

在上节课的最后我提出以下问题,是否该要区别这两个,我们通常倾向于一视同仁的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选