This requires questioning the underlying assumptions and attitudes of our culture and freeing ourselves from them not just in theory, but in practice.

这需要对我们文化中潜在的设想和态度进行质疑，并且将我们自己从中解放出来，不仅仅是从理论上，还要从实践上。

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In theory, surely I could have crossed over the line just that one time and then not done it again.

理论上，我当然可以破例一次，然后永不再犯。

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The old theory, that the universe centered on the earth, just could not be sustained in the face of the telescope's Revelations.

而旧式理论中，宇宙以地球为中心的说法，在望远镜的揭示下就无法站住脚了。

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So there's a little worry going in about not just this example but about the course, about the whole theme of learning Game Theory.

所以不仅担心这个例子,也会担心这个课程,担心博弈论整个理论

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This in itself was extraordinarily useful and constructive, not just for subsequent literary theory, I think, but for the way in which English teaching actually can help people think better.

我觉得这真的很重要而且具有建设性意义，不仅是对以后的文学理论有影响，还使得英语课堂变得,真正可以引人思考了。

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How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

CNN: Inaugural Address

In theory this is good not just for them, but for the economy, because pension money will pour into capital markets.

ECONOMIST: Privatisation looms

But one thing is sure: as shopkeepers in January converted to the euro at, in theory, 1, 936 lire to euro1 prices in the new currency were not just quietly rounded up (that was illegal) but leapt.

ECONOMIST: Italians don't know, but they blame the euro