A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But once you start publishing things in between covers, you actually have to decide what goes in and what goes out.

但一旦你开始把书籍加上封面出版，你就必须决定要出版哪些书。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In England, you have to decide early on before you even go to school

在英国，你在上法学院之前就要决定了，

美国式对比英国式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

But what counts as respecting my life and respecting my property, that is for governments to decide and to define.

但到底怎样才算对生命和财产的尊重，这是由政府来决定和界定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Technology has also made it easier for other people to decide what to give the couple for a wedding gift.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

All right. So formal charge can actually help us out when we're trying to decide between several Lewis structures that look like they might be comparable in terms of which might be the lower energy or the more stable structure.

好的，形式电荷真的可以,帮助我们决定,在几种路易斯结构中,哪个更可能符合能量更低,或者结构更稳定的要求。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And the third thing I need to decide is how do I combine? You know, point out to you in the binary search case, combination was trivial. The answer to the final search was just the answer all the way up.

第三个问题是我需要决定如何进行合并？,就你们所知的，在二分查找中所打印出来的,合并的过程是非常简单的,最后查询的结果,就是一路上来所以的结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Britain refused again. Finally,President Grover Cleveland asked the United States Congress to appoint a committee to decide the border.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

And I suggest a scale that people might use in order to decide how much is enough.

我也建议了一种捐款标准表,来帮助人们决定捐多少钱比较合适。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Missus Graham had to decide if the paper would publish the stories and risk possible punishment by the government.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

If we're going to have a way to decide between these two theories, it seems as though we need some other kind of arguments.

如果我们非要找个方法在两个理论之间取舍，那看来我们需要别的论据。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But later he chose surgery, because it lets him have more time to decide how to help his patients.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

So the citizens had to do their own fighting and to decide when to fight.

所以市民们不得不亲自上阵作战,并决定何时开战

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

We have to decide three things: one, the name of the function.

我们必须决定三个事情：一，函数名。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It's absolutely constitutive of the ideal of freedom, of our freedom; because if we don't try everything, if we don't give ourselves an opportunity to decide for ourselves, then, of course, someone will invariably be making those decisions for us.

它也构成了自由的理念，我们的自由;,因为如果我们不是尝试过所有东西，如果我们不给自己做决定的机会，当然，总是有人会帮我们做决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The new bill gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Moreover, companies have to decide how much dividends to pay on the stock.

另外,公司不得不决定,股票的红利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The experts also say there is not enough evidence to decide about the benefits and harms of testing women seventy-five or older.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But in general these schools have greater freedom to decide what to teach and how to teach it.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

We relied on plitical polling and political advice to decide what issue to emphasize, how to talk about it, what region of the country to talk about it and so on.

政治上有时会依靠民意测验,和政治建议帮助我们作决定,该强调什么问题，怎么讨论，在国家的哪个地区讨论它,诸如此类。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It says there is not enough evidence to decide about either digital mammography or magnetic resonance imaging instead of traditional film mammography.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

You could vote for, as it was in that time, Gore, Bush, Nader, or not voting and I'll leave it to you to decide which of those is equivalent to not voting.

当时你可以这样投票,你可以投给戈尔,布什,纳德,或者投弃权票,我留给你们自己去考虑,投给谁等于弃权

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

It's important to notice something when it's new because then you have to decide whether it's going to harm you, how to deal with it, to attend to it, but you can't keep on noticing it.

能够注意到新鲜事物的出现是非常重要的,因为你需要确定它是否会对你造成伤害，需要确定如何去处理这个新鲜刺激，但你不能一直去注意它。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And it follows from this, Hobbes believes, that the sovereign has the right to decide what opinions, what books, what ideas are conducive to peace and which ones aim simply to stir up war and discontent?

正如前文所说，霍布斯坚信，君主有权决定哪些言论,哪些书籍和哪些主张,是有益于社会和平,哪些是可能挑起冲突和战争的？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选