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。

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

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This is 65. I'm sorry. In this letter Buddy explains to Zooey what he and Seymour have been trying to do.

是在65页，抱歉，那封信里，巴蒂向左伊解释,他和西莫一直试图做的事情。

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So a third way has emerged in the last 20 years, or 15 years or so, and it's one that seeks to avoid this dichotomy between polytheism and monotheism.

因此出现了第三种解释，在过去20年或15年间，它试图避免,将多神论和一神论一分为二。

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They're theories of everything, encompassing just about everything that matters, day-to-day life, child development, mental illness, religion, war, love.

它们试图对世间的一切做出解释，包括了日常生活，儿童发展，心理疾病，宗教，战争及爱情。

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Now Woolf doesn't try to explain exactly how it is that Milton is shutting out the view, and she doesn't try to explain what the view would look like if it weren't shut out.

伍尔夫没有试图解释弥尔顿是怎样,遮住了窗外的风景，她也没有说明,如果没有被遮住这风景应该是怎样的。

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He had a diagram, which illustrated what is the ultimate cause of interest, and it helps us to think about this diagram whenever we try to understand the term structure.

费雪教授用一张图,来解释决定利息的本质因素,每当我们试图理解期限结构时,就会用到这张图

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Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

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Depending on what F you fill in the blank with, what pet feature or fact you're trying to explain by appeal to the soul, you get a different argument.

根据你所挑选的不同功能特性F,以及你试图解释的现象或事实,诉诸于灵魂来进行解释,你会得到不同的论点

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Genesis is concerned to account for the origin of things and wrestles with the existence of evil, the existence of idolatry and suffering in a world that's created by a good god.

创世纪》被认为解释了万物的来源,试图解决罪恶的存在，盲目崇拜的存在以及这个受苦的世界,这是一个善良的神创造的。

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So Milton explains in The Reason of Church Government -he tries to mend this breach and so he argues in this treatise that "Poetry has" -and I'm quoting him here -"Poetry has a power beside the office of the pulpit."

因此弥尔顿在中解释到,他试图修复自身的这种僭越，因此,他在文章中争论到“,我这里也引用了,“诗歌有着布道论教所不可及的力量“

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