Short of good empirical meat, they have to rely on elaborate theory and guesswork to fill in what they cannot observe.

缺少好的观察实验的素材，他们不得不依赖复杂的理论和凭空猜测来替代他们所不能观察到的。

youdao

I don't know enough to form an elaborate theory, but I'm sure that poverty alone cannot account for the increase of the crime rate.

我对此知道得不多，不足以形成一大套力量。不过我肯定，仅仅是贫困还不能解释犯罪率上升。

youdao

I don't know enough to form an elaborate theory, but I am sure that poverty alone cannot account for the increase of the crime rate.

我对此知道的不多，不足以形成一大套理论。不过我肯定，仅仅是贫困还不能解释犯罪率上升。

youdao

If the dualist were to start offering us some elaborate theory of consciousness, "Well, there's these sorts of soul structures, and those sorts of soul structures, and these create these sensations and those create those sensations.

如果二元论者试图,为我们提供一个详尽的意识理论学说,你看,这是灵魂的什么什么结构,那是灵魂的什么什么结构,这些产生了这种感觉,那些产生了那种感觉

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