Experts are not sure whether this tribe placed bodies in caves as part of burial ceremonies or for other reasons.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

And I think what we decide to do in our congregation here whether it's Christian, Muslim or Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist,whatever.

我认为我们对于在国内的集会中做什么的决定,无论是基督教，穆斯林,犹太教，印度教，佛教，不管哪种。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

There should be some sense by the end of the year,he says, whether or not serious progress is being made.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But there was still a question about whether corporations could have the same freedom of political speech as real people do.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

We can't help understanding. We always already understand, which has nothing to do again with whether or not we're right or wrong.

我们控制不住地去理解，我们总是已经理解了，这与对错无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And,that it applies universally, it doesnt matter what ones faith is, it doesnt matter whether its a man or a woman.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

But I choose to walk, and just walking in the seasons whether it's snowing or raining, or gorgeous sunny fall day.

但是我选择走路，什么季节都是如此,无论是雪天，雨天，亦或是秋高气爽。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Parents of children age ten to seventeen were asked whether their child bullies or is cruel or mean to others.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.

于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There are some patients for whom physicians are really on the fence about whether to give one therapy or another.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

There's a big debate about whether this canon list was composed around the year 200 or around the year 400.

人们曾热烈争论过正典书目的形成时间,是形成于主后两百年还是主后四百年。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They studied the pictures for signs of AMD and to see whether smoking influenced the womens chances of developing the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

As you build these kinds of simulations, or anything like this, you need to think through whether things should be multiplicative or additive.

正如你建立各种仿真程序，或者类似的仿真程序时，你应该去想一想,他们应该是用加法还是用乘法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Doctors should also consider how the child was injured and whether the parents say the child is acting normally.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

And then, of course, not just whether the reaction will occur but, how fast it occurs is really important.

当然，我们不光要研究一个反应会不会发生,反应速率多块也是很重要的研究问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And they will study whether it is involving in controlling sleep quantity alone, or also what scientists call the "wakefulness-behavioral drive."

VOA: special.2009.08.26

This God is one who brings things into being, whether it's a cosmos from chaos, or now a new nation from a band of runaway slaves.

这个上帝使是一切得以存在的根源，不论是由混乱而来的宇宙秩序，或者是由一帮逃窜奴隶而来的新国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The researchers will continue to study the mice to test whether the gene is related to other medical conditions.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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

We will use the best evidence available to determine whether a state can meet a few key benchmarks for reform.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

This single book helped me understand myself better as well as other people better-- whether it's politically, whether it's psychologically, whether it's philosophically.

这本书帮助我更好地了解自己,更好地了解别人-,不论是政治上，心理上还是哲学观上。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Whether grown naturally or through technology, people who love orchids say they are the most beautiful flowers on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

And unlike souls, where it was all rather mysterious, how you could tell whether body whether souls swapping, was taking place or not.

不像灵魂论，那么充满神秘，你如何去辨别肉体,或者，灵魂是否，持续在变化，并不那么神秘。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A new study suggests that venture capitalists rarely consider the business plan when deciding whether to invest in a new company.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

I might not be sure whether the opponent, whether my opponent, is choosing Left or Right.

我可能不太确定,我的对手会选择左还是右

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This raises a question. Whether the relation between contemporary political science and liberalism is merely accidental or whether there is some intrinsic some necessary connection between them.

这导出一个问题，当代政治科学,与自由主义的关系仅是偶然,或之间，有些本质的,一些必然的,连结介于两者之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选