And he defines it almost in terms of laws of physics.

而他解释时运用的大多是物理的法则。

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The fundamental laws of physics, according to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, are probabilistic.

物理学的基本法则,根据量子力学的标准解释来说,这都是概率决定的

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More generally speaking, we might say, they're subject to deterministic laws... that, as physical objects, it's true of them that they must do what the laws of physics and laws of nature require that they do.

我们甚至可以这样说,它们受制于决定性的法则,即,作为物理实体,它们必须按照,物理定律和自然法则的要求去做

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