This is when you learn the laws in terms of which you can understand and explain a large number of phenomena.

从此刻开始,你们学习的理论,能帮助你理解和解释生活中的很多现象

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It also explains the phenomenal 6 degrees of separation: how we are all connected and interconnected in a web potentially of goodness.

它也解释了六度分隔理论：,我们都是关联和相互关联的,在一个潜在善的网络里。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Well, that's the sense of theory that I like to work with, and I would pause over it by saying that after all, there is a difference and practice and we shouldn't too quickly, at least, confuse the terms.

我想在此讨论的就是理论的这种解释，不过我想补充一句，理论和实践是两回事,至少我们不能混淆这两个名词。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?

如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑，会引起怎样的后果呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Freud and Skinner had explanations of all of these.

弗洛伊德和斯金纳的理论解释了上述一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the general idea of Freud is actually been so successful both in the study of scientific psychology and in our interpretation of everyday life that, to some extent, freud's been a victim of his own success.

但弗洛伊德的理论,确实在科学心理学的研究,和日常生活的解释方面,获得了巨大的成功，以至于弗洛伊德多少有点，成了他自身成功的牺牲者。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选