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The context of any exhibit is more important to me than whether the object being displayed is 2000 years old or 2 months old.

对我来说，任何展览的背景都比展出的物品是有2000年历史还是只有2个月历史更重要。

Whether it is a mental health app, a fitness tracker, a connected health device or something else, many of us are taking advantage of this technology to keep better track of our health in some shape or form.

无论是心理健康应用、健身追踪器、联网健康设备还是其他东西，我们中许多人都在以某种形式利用这项技术更好地跟踪自己的健康状况。

We shall see whether that plurality is a casualty of the current need among publishers to be big enough to take on all-comers.

这种多元性是否会成为出版商当前追求规模、以便足以迎战一切对手的需求的牺牲品，我们拭目以待。

We conducted a comprehensive survey examining how U.S. residents view their national parks, and we found that Americans place a very high value on them — whether or not they actually visit them.

我们开展了一项全面调查，考察美国居民如何看待他们的国家公园，结果发现，无论美国人是否真的去过这些公园，他们都非常重视它们。

The egg industry’s push is the first major test of whether animal products from regenerative farms can become the next premium offering.

鸡蛋行业的这一推动，是对再生农场的动物产品能否成为下一个高端产品的首次重大考验。

Whether this research translates elsewhere is anybody’s guess.

这项研究能否适用于其他地方，谁也说不准。

She found similar interference when participants watched 15-second clips of pairs of people and judged whether they were strangers, friends, or dating partners.

当参与者观看两人一组的15秒视频片段，并判断他们是陌生人、朋友还是恋人时，她也发现了类似的干扰。

How do you decide whether it’s worth speaking up?

你如何决定是否值得说出来？

Decide whether to wait

决定是否等待

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

但它已经引发了重大争议，美国贸易代表已就该税是否歧视美国公司展开调查，而这反过来可能导致对法国的贸易制裁。

“Whether you’re a politician or a parent, it might be helpful to keep in mind that trying to maintain eye contact may backfire if you’re trying to convince someone who has a different set of beliefs than you,” said Minson.

明森说：“无论你是政治家还是父母，记住这一点或许会有帮助：如果你试图说服一个与你信念不同的人，努力保持眼神交流可能会适得其反。”

To find out if this extends to non-living beings, Laleh Quinn at the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues tested whether rats can detect social signals from robotic rats.

为了弄清这种能力是否延伸到非生命体，加州大学圣迭戈分校的拉蕾·奎因和她的同事测试了老鼠能否察觉到来自机器鼠的社交信号。

We often feel the need to tell others how we feel, whether it’s a concern about a project, a stray thought, or a compliment.

我们常常觉得需要把自己的感受告诉别人，无论是对某个项目的担忧、一个偶然的想法，还是一句赞美。

Next time you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good.

下次你陈述自己的立场时，为你的主张构建一个论证，并诚实地问问自己这个论证是否站得住脚。

That tells me whether I need to [adjust] my training program.

这能告诉我是否需要调整训练计划。

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

这些新形式起初主要由学者创作、由业余演员表演，但在英国，正如在西欧其他各地一样，职业演员阶层的壮大正使戏剧趋于大众化，无论它是新是旧，是古典的还是中世纪的，是文学性的还是闹剧性的。

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是否

There’s always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated “race to the finish line,” whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or lucrative career.

在社会上长期存在的“冲向终点的竞赛”中，人们总是担心落后于他人，无论终点是研究生院、医学院还是高薪职业。

Another nationwide concern is whether public funds from other agencies are going into construction in fire-prone districts.

另一个全国性的问题是，其他机构的公共资金是否被投入到火灾易发地区的建设中。

Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades, and further trade deals raise questions about whether new shocks could hit manufacturing.

毫无疑问，制造业在最近几十年里遭受了重创，而更多的贸易协定引发了人们对制造业是否会受到新冲击的疑问。

The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

最高法院现在将审议：在逮捕过程中，如果手机就在被捕者身上或身边，警方能否在没有搜查令的情况下搜查手机内容。

The Supreme Court will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to ____

最高法院将裁定，在逮捕过程中____是否合法

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”

当被问及是否有特定论文促成了这一变化时，麦克纳特说：“设立‘统计委员会’是出于对科学研究中统计和数据分析应用的广泛担忧，也是《科学》杂志提高所发表研究的可重复性这一整体努力的一部分。”

What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.

这项研究没有衡量的是，人们在家时是否仍在工作，无论是家务活还是从办公室带回家的工作。

What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.

这项研究没有衡量的是，人们在家时是否仍在工作，无论是家务活还是从办公室带回家的工作。

The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.

调查接着会问，他们那一周工作不足35小时，是因为他们想做非全职工作，还是因为别无选择。

The scores were [then] used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is [marked] out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

随后，这些分数会与申请者在研究生管理科入学考试（GMAT，一种满分为800分的标准化考试）中的成绩结合起来，用以决定是否录取该申请者。

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

由于无法分辨某人是真的反对行为定向广告，还是只是沿用了微软的默认设置，一些公司可能会无视DNT信号，照样继续追踪。

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

由于无法分辨某人是真的反对行为定向广告，还是只是沿用了微软的默认设置，一些公司可能会无视DNT信号，照样继续追踪。

And whether the community’s work contributes much to an overall accumulation of knowledge is doubtful.

而且，社会科学界的工作是否对知识的整体积累有很大贡献也令人怀疑。

Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms; if we are judging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds.

仓促的决定可能是重要的防御机制；如果我们在判断某人是否危险，我们的大脑和身体天生就会在几毫秒内作出非常迅速的反应。

To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five.

研究表明，要准确判断一个人是否善于交际，我们至少需要一分钟，最好是五分钟。

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

当戈特曼博士真正想评估一对夫妇能否继续在一起时，他会邀请他们到他的海岛休养所进行时间长得多的评估：是两天，而不是两秒钟。

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women — whether CEOs or their children’s caregivers — and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

如果有适当的公共政策来帮助所有女性——无论是首席执行官还是照看其孩子的保姆——以及所有家庭，那么桑德伯格就不会比生活在一个更加公正的社会中的其他任何能力出众的人更具新闻价值。

This and other similar cases [raise] the question of whether there is still a [line] between the court and politics.

这一案例及其他类似案例引出了一个问题：最高法院与政治之间是否仍有界线。

As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether ____

如第4段所述，关于家庭作业一个尚未解答的关键问题是____

For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.

例如，对整个基因组进行测序是否侵犯其中单个基因的专利，目前尚不清楚。

For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one.

就我而言，我不知道吉尔伯特是一位伟大的指挥家，甚至不知道他算不算一位好指挥家。