This has been one of the major reasons for explaining the function of the phalanx as I will explain it to you.

而我下面所要解释的方阵的作用,也就是问题的答案

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And try and explain to them why you think your program is doing what it's doing.

向别人解释你认为的程序作用,会给你带来很大帮助。

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And more generally, the problem is you can talk about what other people do in terms of reinforcement and punishment and operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

更加一般性的问题便是,你可以用强化和惩罚，操作性条件作用,以及经典条件作用之类的术语,来解释他人的行为。

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The other thing we know about the brain is that the cortex is absolutely essential for is interpreting the features such as that facial expression, color.

我们还知道,大脑皮层对于解释面部表情,颜色等特征发挥绝对根本的作用。

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For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

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According to the soul-theory argument for soul, rather,according to the argument for souls, you needed to believe in souls in order to explain how you could have a person.

根据灵魂理论的说法，或宁可说是灵魂作用的说法，人需要相信灵魂的存在才能解释作为人的存在。

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Milton explains that the Licensing Order of 1643 is ineffective, it's useless because, and I'm quoting here, " order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed."

弥尔顿解释说《出版管制法》毫无作用，一无是处，我引用他的话说原因“,因为这个管制法对控制诽谤性的，有煽动性的，中伤他人的需要被控制的书籍毫无用处“

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Now, it's more complicated than that because it's not just sodium channels that are involved, there are potassium channels also, and the interplay between sodium channels opening and potassium channels opening, this is described in some detail in your book.

现在 事情更复杂了,因为这一过程不仅关系着钠离子通道,也关系着钾离子通道,以及钠离子通道和钾离子通道之间开关,的相互作用,书中有详细解释

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And to what extent are they best explained in terms of an interaction?

在多大的程度上这些区别,可以从相互作用的角度得到最佳的解释

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So a behaviorist story about fetishes, for instance, is it's straightforward classical conditioning.

比如行为主义者对恋物癖的一种解释就是，恋物癖是简单的经典条件作用的结果。

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This almost certainly is not the right story but again, just as in phobias, some ideas of classical conditioning may play some role in determining what we like and what we don't like sexually.

这个解释肯定是错的,但是，与在恐惧症中的作用相同，经典条件作用,或许对我们在性活动方面的喜恶,起着一定的决定作用。

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So the strong classical conditioning stories about fetishes and fears sound silly and extreme and they probably are but at the same time classical conditioning can be used at least to shape the focus of our desires and of our interests.

用经典条件作用来解释恋物癖和恐惧,听起来很蠢也很极端,或许是这样,但至少经典条件作用,能够使我们产生,对欲望和兴趣的关注。

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