I think the simple fact of the matter is we don't know enough about consciousness yet to know whether or not it can be explained in physical terms.

一个简单的事实就是,我们对于意识了解甚少,还不知道是否能使用物理的方式对其进行解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We can see how whether it's the same person or not has to turn on the relations between the stages.

我们可以看到，是否为同一人,必须依赖于人在两个时期的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Common objects can be pure or impure; it just depends whether or not they've been in contact with a source of impurity or not. Alright?

普通的事物可以是纯洁的或者不纯洁的;,原因只取决于它们是否,和一些不纯洁的来源有接触，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They build them, they do what if games, they play with them, and then they try and adjust them to get them right The nice thing here is, you can decide whether you believe momentum and see what it would mean, or not mean, etc.

他们实现建立程序，他们去做“要是“游戏，他们不断尝试，然后他们不断调整最终得到正确结果,最好的一件事就是，你可以决定你是否相信这个股票势头,看看它到底意味着什么或根本没有意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He can't hear his own horn, whether it blows or not.

他那个不知道，能不能按响的喇叭。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's the safer answer if you can't decide whether or not your opponent's going to choose Left or Right, so you don't have to worry about having a payoff of 0.

当你无法判断你的对手会选左还是右时,选下是较安全的答案,因此你不必担心收益变成0

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But I hope to doing the next couple of lectures is giving you an idea what this class is about so that you can decide whether or not it is for you.

但希望几堂课后，你能有个大概印象,让你决定这门课是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As we do these little clicker poll things you can tell me if you find it helpful or not, then we can decide how to continue --whether to continue them in the future.

我们用表决器做这个小测试的同时,大家可以告诉我你们觉得这有没有帮助,然后我们再决定以后是否继续用

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It seems plausible to think that whether or not a person can survive or continue to exist after the death of his or her body should depend on how he's built, what he's made of, what his or her parts are.

这似乎可以理解成,一个人的肉体死亡后,能否幸存或继续存在,是取决于他的构造,他的组成部分,他或她各部分的构件

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选