They're theories of everything, encompassing just about everything that matters, day-to-day life, child development, mental illness, religion, war, love.

它们试图对世间的一切做出解释，包括了日常生活，儿童发展，心理疾病，宗教，战争及爱情。

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In some ways, somebody with autism isn't like any child at all, any normally developing child at all.

从某些方面来看,成年孤独症患者,与正常发展的儿童完全不同

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So, the problem we have to solve to help people like MikeIs to find ways to cause those parts of cortex to develop properly when they are children or have them re-learn as adults.

因此，我们要帮助像迈克这样的人解决的问题,就是找到他们在儿童时期使,这些皮层进行发展,或者成年以后再学习的方法。

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But he studied development of the individual child because he was convinced that this development will tell him about the development of knowledge more generally.

但是,由于他深信,个体儿童的发展,能够表现出认识发展的一般规律,所以他才选择去研究个体儿童的发展

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He was very interested in saying, "Look. We'll figure how a kid develops and that will tell us about the development of knowledge more generally."

他常说,"只要能够理解儿童如何发展,就能够理解认识发展的一般规律"

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So, suppose I have a theory that the reason why some children have autism, a profound developmental disorder, is because their mothers don't love them enough.

假设我提出了一个理论,阐述了儿童之所以患有自闭症，一种严重的发展障碍，是因为孩子缺乏母爱。

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And it's through this stage that a child gradually comes to acquire object permanence.

在这一阶段,儿童逐渐发展起,客体永存性的概念

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I study child development for a living and I'm interested in several questions.

我主要研究儿童的发展,我对很多问题都感兴趣

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One reason is these are interesting and falsifiable claims about child development.

一个原因是,这些是关于儿童发展的,有趣且可证伪的论断

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And so, Freud's theory is, as I said before, a theory of everyday life, of decisions, of errors, of falling in love, but it's also a theory of child development.

所以，正如之前所说，弗洛伊德的理论不仅解释了日常生活，决策，失误以及恋爱等现象，还解释了儿童的发展。

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Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

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An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.

而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的

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Suppose you hate development; you hate developmental psychology; you hate babies; you hate children; they're not cute; they're ugly; you don't want to have them; you don't want to study them; you're annoyed that we have to discuss them.

假设你讨厌发展,讨厌发展心理学,讨厌婴儿,讨厌儿童,他们不可爱,他们很丑陋,你不想有孩子,也不想去研究他们,你对我们探讨儿童觉得厌烦

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