The centrality Aristotle ascribes to politics forces us to consider another question ? namely what is the purpose of this study?

亚里士多德加到政治中的,中心论点迫使我们考虑另一个问题,即这门研究的目的为何？

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What is the goal or purpose ? of the study of politics and what is distinctive about Aristotle's approach ? to the study of political things?

研究政治的,目标与目的为何,亚里士多德学习,政治事务方法的,最大不同点为何？

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Research is about identifying things that really occur/happen in reality.

研究的目的在于查明事实,现实中真正发生了的事实。

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And there's been some efforts cross-culturally, to go back to the question this young man asked before looking at cross-cultural differences in toilet training and weaning, which are really big differences, to see if they correspond in any interesting way to personality differences.

回到刚才那位同学提出的问题，确实也已经有些跨文化的研究试图探究,在如厕训练和断奶上的跨文化差异,这些差异是非常大的，而这些研究的目的，是为了看看这些跨文化上的差异,是否与人格差异存在着某种联系。

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There is a very big-- one of the largest clinical trials that the U.S. Government ever did was called the Women's Health Initiative, and there were several purposes built into this particular study, but what it did was it took post menopausal women and randomly assigned them to different dietary conditions.

有一个很大的,美国政府曾经做过的,一个最大的临床试验,叫做"妇女健康倡导计划",这项研究有几个特殊的目的,研究主要是将更年期的妇女,随机分配至,不同的饮食环境中

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