"I want a grandchild.I'll be seventy in July, and I just -- whether they get married or not, I want a grandchild."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

It requires the citizens are informed, not just informed, well-informed enough to know whether they are being adequately served.

公民需要了解，不仅仅是了解，要很好地了解他们是否,得到了政府的良好服务。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

and they haven't really thought long and hard about whether they want to be a lawyer.

其实，关于将来愿不愿意当律师，他们自己也没有仔细考虑过。

拿全额奖学金 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The pilots are paid less, and there are questions about whether they get enough training or rest.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

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

Finding themselves safely at home, it would be of no importance whether they had ever been away."

VOA: special.2009.12.31

And what Alexander and his successors did was they took that basic Greek structure, and they transplanted it all over the Eastern Mediterranean, whether they were in Egypt or Syria or Asia Minor or anyplace else.

而亚历山大和他的继业者,把这些希腊式结构，移植到了地中海东部各地，无论是埃及，叙利亚，小亚细亚还是其他地方。

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

You must love loyal advisors and servants, whether they be foreigners or our own people, and spare no effort to serve the common good."

你一定要热爱俄国那些忠诚的大臣和臣民,不管他是来自外国还是国内,同时你也必须不遗余力地为公共利益服务"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

When the people gathered together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they would see a bloody killing or a happy ending.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.27

They differ according to their IQs; whether they're aggressive or shy; whether they're attracted to males, females, both or neither; whether they are good at music; whether they are politically liberal or conservative.

他们的智商也不同,他们自信还是害羞,他们是否喜欢男人,女人,都喜欢,还是都不喜欢,他们是否擅长于音乐,他们是政治上的自由派还是保守派

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Or whether they have just had enough and they don't like the restrictions, and they don't like the cyber attacks, and they're going to move out so as to preserve their name and brand."

VOA: special.2010.01.15

And when they started encountering these Northerners, whether they were from Massachusetts or Ohio, who started talking about a politics of conscience, or a politics of law, they're not always talking on the same page.

当他们数落北方人的时候,不管他们本身来自马萨诸塞州或俄亥俄州,他们开始讨论对良知,或者政法的时候,他们总是牛头不对马嘴

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"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

And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.

约瑟夫知道这将打击他父亲雅各布,如果失去Rachel唯一剩下的儿子，但他只想考验兄弟看他们是否改过自新,在他们把他变卖为奴之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Why should we weigh all preferences that people have without assessing whether they're good preferences or bad preferences?

为何该同等看待所有偏好,而不区分其好坏呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

U.S.air travelers this busy holiday season appear divided over whether they would want to submit to body scanning.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

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

"They can decide whether they want to travel all the way from their village to the city."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

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

The spokesman did confirm that the singer was taking some prescription medications, but could not say whether they played a role in his death.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

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

"A willingness to follow your passions, regardless of whether they lead to fortune or fame,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

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

We cannot tell whether they are 'blood diamonds' or not." "That will be part of the investigation because you still need people to say "Yes,I know these diamonds;

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

And see whether they're okay.

看看它们是不是正确的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And often, if you want to make a lot of it, you have to think about the thermodynamics of the system, how fast the reactions will go and kinetics, and then whether they'll go, the thermodynamics, and sometimes then you need to adjust the reactions, maybe use a transition metal to make it go better.

这种分子就不能正常工作，而且通常来说,如果你要大量生产一个东西,你必须考虑系统的热力学，反应速率和动力学,还有反应是否会发生，热力学，而且有时候你需要调整反应的发生。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选