Is it meaningful to choose to do the good when you have no choice to do otherwise or aren't aware that you have a choice to do otherwise?

这样是否有意义，你选择了善良,在你别无选择的时候,或者是当你没有意识到还有其他选择的时候？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think so. I think eventually we will have to. There's not going to be a choice.

我相信。我觉得最终我们不得不找到，我们别无选择。

对全球变暖的政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I have made a conscious choice that I can't drive to work, I do have a spot in the parking garage.

我都会故意,不开车上班，我的车,停在车库里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Let's turn to the next president who is gonna have a hard choice to make.

接下来我们谈谈下届总统选举的问题,这个不太容易搞定。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Perhaps because they have become wise in that they have learned they have moral choice. They have free will, they can defy God and God's plans for them in a way that animals and natural phenomena cannot.

也许是因为，他们在拥有智慧以后,明白他们有道德选择，他们有自由的意愿,可以反抗上帝为他们决定的命运,而这些事动物和自然无法做到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Okay. So that's the basic distinction and, as I say, as far as I can see it's irreconcilable so it leaves us with a choice that really does have to be made, and it's a choice which looms over a course in literary theory and coming to understand the tradition of literary theory.

这就是二者基本的不同之处，我以前说过，只要二者不能兼容,我们就不得不从中选择一个，这个选择将会一直出现在文学理论课,和理解文学理论传统的过程中。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.

这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果,某个人比其他所有人跑的都快,就好像这场竞赛中,除了第一你别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Towards semester's end you will have the opportunity to choose a project to work on, choose a project that is entirely of your own choice to execute.

接近学期结束时,你们将有机会选择一个项目来做,一个完全由你自己选择执行的项目。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

and he is still as much a choice as people of Afghnastan have had in their whole history.

纵观历史，他依然是阿富汗人民的一个很好的选择。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

OK. The other piece I want to say about variable names is, once I have that choice of variable name, I can use it, but in fact there are a few things that I can't use in terms of variable names.

关于变量名字我还想说的,另外一点就是，一旦我对变量的名称可以选择，我可以用自己的方式命名，但是,有一些词汇是,不能用来命名变量的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well they--it's a balancing -they have to balance -sometimes they don't like the choice they made but the advantage to being public is that people trust you more.

他们...这其实是种平衡,他们必须权衡利弊,他们并不希望公司上市,但上市的好处是,能够因此取得公众更多的信任

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well, I guess in the first case where you have the one worker and the five, it's a choice between those two and you have to make a certain choice and people are going to die because of the trolley car, not necessarily because of your direct actions.

我认为，在第一种情况中是撞死一个还是五个，你只能在这两者中选择,不管你做出的是哪一个选择,总得有人被电车撞死，而他们的死，并非你的直接行为导致。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选