Well, the conception of the universe that was widespread among ancient peoples is one that you're probably familiar with.

那就是，对宇宙的理解,一个古人很崇尚,大家也很熟悉的说法。

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There are widespread controversies about it, and many of the courses you would take in law school are meant to try to get to the bottom of these thorny questions.

这个问题有很多争议，法学院的很多课都旨在,把这些棘手的问题弄得水落石出。

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There's a kind of puzzle there as to-- even if, before we move to the question, how widespread are cases like this?

这里又产生了一种疑团-,甚至在我们探讨，这种案例有多普遍之前？

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But what I should also report to you is that I think there is a widespread consensus among most people that study the subject.

我之所以给你们整理出来是因为,对于这方面的研究有一个比较统一的观点

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Joseph's betrayal by his brothers, his decent into Egypt, set the stage, not only for the reformation of his brothers' characters, which is an important part of the story, but for the descent of all of the Israelites into Egypt, so as to survive widespread famine.

约瑟夫兄弟们的背叛，他进入埃及，奠定了基础，不仅为他兄弟们品格的修复，这是故事中非常重要的一部分，也为所有以色列人进入埃及，为了幸免于蔓延的饥荒。

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And the implications are that we'd like to build a confidential and dynamic theoria of decision-making that I can account for the widespread decisions that people making, those when they are inrrational reflected when they are not And we'd also like a better remapping of disease on sympton profiles, so that we can address those symptoms better.

其结论是,我们希望建立起有关决策的新兴学科,籍此来对人们的非理性决策，做出解释,同时我们也希望能够对疾病的症状作出更好的了解，从而能够更准确地确定病情。

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Why should doubt about the veridical or truth-affirming possibilities of interpretation be so widespread in the twentieth century?

对确认为真的解读可能性的怀疑,为什么会在20世纪如此普遍？

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What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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