I set up a theoretical framework here ... and I wanted to give you-- I mentioned oil because it seems to make it, to me, so clear what we're talking about here.

我建立了个理论框架,然后我想讲给你们听-,我之前提到石油是因为它适用于这个框架，非常清晰阐述我们所谈到的内容。

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We have a nice theoretical framework, but the application of the framework to the real data is hard and it ends up with politics underneath it all; that's just the real world.

我们有清晰的理论框架,但实际运用理论知识却困难重重,最终还是政治支配一切,这就是现实社会

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