It has traditional stories and legends, some quite fanciful, Whose goal it is to explain how and why something is what it is.

它讲述了一些传统故事，有一些还极具想象力，它们试图解释事物的形成方式及成因。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One way to put it, especially in nineteenth-century realism which particularly interests Brooks, is all these characters are just madly making bad object choices.

一种解释的方式，用19世纪现实主义的观点来看,也就是布鲁克斯感兴趣的观点来看，就是小说中的人物在疯狂地做着错误的决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You might put it this way as sort of the easiest version of this kind of argument, for our purposes.

你也可以把它当作,这种论证的最简解释方式,以便于理解

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You simply want to describe things the way they are and then dynamics tells you how they changed and why they changed.

你只是单纯描述物体的实际状态,而动力学则是解释它们运动的方式和原因的

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So the basic lesson is that payoffs matter, but let me say it a different way.

最基本的结论就是收益很重要,让我们换种方式来解释

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That seems to be one way of making sense of the city/soul hypothesis, but again it doesn't seem to answer the question ? in what way are cities and individuals alike.

那似乎是,解释城灵假说的一种方式，但似乎仍未回答基本的问题,城市与个人间到底有何相似之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Let me put it in the simplest way.

让我用最简洁的方式解释下

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I mean, you know the wings go, and the air runs, and then the motor on the engine and it's a miracle how it gets up there and that is the way I used to explain the Greeks, because I had no better idea.

我的意思是,你知道机翼的作用,空气的流动,还有引擎上的发动机,飞机能飞起来,是个奇迹,我就是用这种方式来解释希腊历史的,因为我也没有更好的方法了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And then, if we were to appeal to something nonphysical, we would do a better job of explaining.

而如果我们诉诸于非物理的方式,就能解释得更好

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He wants explanation, and the form of explanation is paraphrase.

他要的是解释，用释意的方式来解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think the simple fact of the matter is we don't know enough about consciousness yet to know whether or not it can be explained in physical terms.

一个简单的事实就是,我们对于意识了解甚少,还不知道是否能使用物理的方式对其进行解释

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