There has been a long tradition of interpreting the deed or the sin of Adam and Eve as sexual, and there are some hints in the story that would support such an interpretation.

很长的一段时间中，我们把亚当夏娃所犯的原罪,解释为他们之间的性举动，这个故事中，有些暗示,与这种解释，不谋而合。

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We can use the Coulomb force law to explain this where we can describe the force as a function of r.

我们用库伦定律解释它,力作为距离r的函数,让我们考虑一下。

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I'm going to start with those and then I'll turn, eventually, to another set of possible things that might need explaining, which we might think of as extraordinary, supernatural things.

我将从这里开始,然后转而讨论,另一些,需要给予解释的现象,那些我们可能视之为异乎寻常的,超自然现象

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What we're justified in believing are those things that we need, not simply when they would offer us some kind of explanation, but when they offer us the best explanation that we can think of.

我们确信我们需要某些东西,不仅在于它们为我们提供了某种解释,还在于它们能使我们,想出的最佳解释

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