And what humanistic psychology said was that we are much more than a billiard ball being knocked around.

而人本主义心理学认为,我们不只是被击打的台球。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Except for electromagnetism, the basics of mechanics, which is the motion of Billiard balls and trucks and marbles and whatnot, was set up by Newton.

除电磁学外,力学的基础,也就是台球,卡车,弹球以及其它小玩意儿的运动原理,都是由牛顿建立起来的

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I am modeling them as billiard balls of a finite dimension.

我把它们想象成具有有限尺寸的台球。

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Behaviorism looks at the human entity, at the person as basically a collection of behaviors as a box, like a billiard ball knocked around by reinforcements, by punishment, by reward.

行为主义认为人的主体性，认为人是一个行为集合，就像一只被击打而四处滚动的台球，被增强，奖惩驱动。

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