A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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Politics political science he tells us in the Ethics again is not a theoretical subject in the matter of physics or metaphysics or mathematics.

政治，政治科学,他在《伦理学》中再次告诉我们的,并非理论性主题,见诸物理学,形上学或数学。

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In the second lecture, I talked about the pooling of risks and the basic theme of that lecture was that we now have a mathematical theory, probability theory.

第二课，我讲了风险汇聚及分摊,那节课的主题是,一门数学理论，即概率论。

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But I'm going to present this as an example here because it illustrates so many of the Freudian themes, particularly themes about dreams, the importance of dreams, about repression and about hidden meaning.

但我之所以要举出这个例子,是因为它展示了大量精神分析理论的主题，特别是关于梦境，梦的重要性，梦的压抑及其隐含意义这样的主题。

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