They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous and keep surprise to a minimum.

他们试图自然地建立起一个论点,使之一致，使我们的诧异最小化。

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A lot of Freudians have tried and made a research program of extending their ideas scientifically, bringing them to robust scientific tests.

许多精神分析的支持者们,都试图建立研究项目,来科学地扩展他们的理论观点，使得这些理论观点得到了大量的科学研究。

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VAR So, people talk about VAR, value at risk, and lots of people try and build VAR systems.

所以，人们总是讨论，即风险收益，而且有很多人试图建立风险收益系统。

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And we Americans are going try to live up to them to prove that governments can in fact, be based on these values.

我们将试图,坚持这些价值观，从而证明事实上政府可以建立，在这些价值观之上。

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And one way people do this is they take a hint from nature and they try to construct massively distributed networks to do aspects of reasoning.

进行研究的方法之一便是,研究者们从自然界获得启示,然后试图建立起广泛分布的网络,来进行不同的推理

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