We now have to choose a smart way forward so that no one is ever compelledto ask whether we've made a mistake in staying."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

So, ask yourself frankly especially when it comes to designing your own tools and your own programs whether it's for real users to use, whether it's for your research group to use in some other field, you know, where do you even begin?

坦白讲，问一问你们自己,当你设计一个工具，一个程序时,它是否是为真实用户使用的，还是为在其他领域的,研究团队使用的，你们懂的，你从哪里开始？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We're considering item 1 and we're trying to ask whether we can put it in.

我们考虑1号物品1,我们将要问我们,能否把它装进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What you wanted--at least what I want, I invite you to ask yourself whether you want the same thing-- what I want is not just survival, but survival with the same personality.

你想要的，至少我想要的，你们也问问自己你们是不是想要这个-,我想要的不仅仅是存活，而是带有同样的人格存活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In order, finally, to see whether Locke is an ally or potentially a critic of the libertarian idea of the state, We have to ask what becomes of our natural rights once we enter into society.

为了最终搞清洛克到底是,自由主义的盟友还是潜在的批评者，就得弄清，一旦进入社会，自然权利将有何变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We're going to ask everybody in this row whether they want to enter or not.

我们要问这排里的每一个人,是否要参选

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And I won't ask you to check whether it got the right answer.

我不用你算这到底,是不是正确的答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

- On the other hand, we have to ask ourselves-- and this the question that I left us with last time- whether it would really, all things considered, be better to know how much time you had.

另一方面，我们不得不问自己-,这是上一次课我留下来的问题-,从全面考虑，知道你还有多少时间，是不是会更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in a moment, I'll ask whether it's the best possible explanation, but before we do turn to that question, there is an objection to this entire way of looking at things that's probably worth pausing for a moment and considering.

而马上,我要问你们这是否是最好的解释,但在我们转向那个问题之前,有一个对这一整套,看待问题的方式的反驳,或许值得我们稍微停留并考虑一番

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选