Now I suppose it's my reluctance to get into the intricacies of questions having to do with applied theory that makes me prefer to keep it simple.

我不愿意在,应用理论上纠结,因此想把它简单化。

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So on the personality theory, I did not exist when that fertilized egg came into being, when the egg and the sperm joined.

所以在人格理论上，卵子受精的时候我还不存在，卵子和精子结合时。

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If you're not hitting, you're pushing, that's the theory.

如果你不在进攻那就在相互推挤,理论上是这样

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Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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There are lots of things to be said against it, on the other hand, which I don't want to pause over now because I think a course of lectures on literary theory will inevitably show the ways in which paraphrase is inadequate to the task of rigorous interpretation.

另一方面，有很多反对这个的言论，我不想在此,停下来讲,因为我觉得一门,文学理论上的课不可避免地,会包括一些释意所无法，充分解释的方面,一个严苛的评论家克林斯。

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But in theory, in principle, this is what we're wondering about when we face choices.

但在理论上，在原则上，这是我们面对选择时会考虑的情况。

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But as theorists, we could be interested in the theoretical possibility that the right response is to not think about the facts of death at all.

但作为理论家，我们可能对“正确的回应是,根本不考虑所有关于死亡的事实”,在理论上的可能性感兴趣。

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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

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