A behaviorist might admit that a human can do things that a rat or pigeon couldn't but a behaviorist might just say, "Look. Those are just general associative powers " that differ" Or they may even deny it.

行为主义者可能会承认人类能够做到,一些老鼠或鸽子无法做到的事情,但他们或许只会说，“它们只不过是在一般性联想学习能力上,有所差异而已“,甚至他们干脆否认。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

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So Steve and Patrick are respectively the managers of Coca-Cola and Poland Spring and Patrick believes that the Coca-Cola manager is going to may be we should just make this Coke and Pepsi since two identical they're near enough and identical, right?

史蒂夫和帕特里克分别是,可口可乐和波兰泉的经理,帕特里克认为可口可乐的经理打算,或许该用可口可乐和百事可乐,他们俩才是对手是吧

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