And there may be another explanation: pressure from parents to get a good return on the family's investment.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

So we've got a possible explanation of the difference between an animated and an unanimated or an inanimate body to it.

于是我们得到了对,生命体与非生命体之间区别的一种可能的解释

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But what we seem to be justified in believing is not just any old explanation, but the "Best explanation."

但是,我们认为正确并坚信着的,不是某些随便的陈旧解释,而是,最佳解释

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And according to Flores the explanation for these differences is not apparent because clear and consistent data are not available.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

You feel physiologically aroused but you're not completely sure why, and you have to make up an explanation for it.

你感觉到性觉醒,但是不能确定是什么原因，你不得不给出一个解释。

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Mayor Daley says the city will rewrite its gun ordinance to comply with Second Amendment rights, but he offered no explanation of how that might be achieved.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

All right, so that's really all there is to thinking about valence bond theory in terms of the most simple explanation here.

好了，这就是,价电子轨道理论的,最简单的解释。

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The channel appeared to be back on Saturday. The president's office released no explanation for Sherry Rehman's resignation, but said another cabinet member has taken over her duties.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"

这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢？

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He said that consequently South Africa wishes to register its disapproval of the manner in which Semenya has been treated and said the Minister of Sport and Recreation has written to the IAAF to request an explanation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

So we need to have some better explanation.

所以我们需要得到更好的解释。

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Although most of you would probably say "well it's--all these things are involved, at least to some extent,"society defaults to certain assumptions about what's driving food intake and there are some people that default to an environmental explanation of this.

尽管你们大部分人可能会说,"和以上这些因素都有关系,至少有些关系",社会共识,某些原因造成了我们摄取过多垃圾食品,一些人把这归咎于环境原因

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Just a word for the other side of the argument, I want to read you a quotation from Hans Van Wees, who is the leading critic of the traditional orthodox explanation I just gave you.

顺便提一句反方的观点,我给你们读一段汉斯·万·威斯的话,他是批判传统正统学说的领军人物,就是我刚才说过那些解释

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And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

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Which is just to say, we need to offer a biological/physical explanation of what goes on in near-death experiences.

那也只不过是说,关于濒死体验我们需要给出,一个生物学或物理学的解释

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Again the claim--the explanation for why this is so is something which we'll get to in another class.

对于为何会出现这种情况的解释,我们以后的堂课上再讲。

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As is typically the case, you've got to decide for yourself what strikes you as the better explanation.

和往常一样,你必须自己决定,哪种解释更合适

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It's a matter of inference, not just to any old explanation, but inference to the best explanation.

这是逻辑推论的结果,不是随便什么陈旧的解释,而是最佳解释的推论结果

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One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

一个可能的解释,二元论者会说,那是你妈妈的鬼魂,她是一个非物质的灵魂,在你睡觉的时候跟你交流

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Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

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Inference to the best explanation" is not a single argument for the soul.

最佳解释的推论,并不仅仅是关于灵魂的一个论证

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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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Here we might then have an entire other family of arguments, set of arguments--again, still of the form "Inference to the best explanation."

这里我们就有了全新的一类论证,一系列的论证,但仍需遵循,"最佳解释推理"

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if we had a dualist explanation with some details really worked out, maybe we'd have to say, "Look, this is the better explanation."

如果我们拥有一个,既可行又详尽的二元论解释,也许我们就会说,看哪,这才是更好的解释

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We don't really have very much of a physical explanation until we begin to offer scientific accounts of each of those aspects of near-death experience.

我们并没有什么物理学的解释,除非我们能够对濒死体验的各方面,给出科学的阐释

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And here's a theory," well, then, I'll begin to take it seriously as an explanation.

这里还有一套理论,好吧,这样的话我会认真考虑这种解释

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Here's another version of an argument that goes from inference to the best explanation.

这是某个论证,从推理发展为最佳解释的另一种说法

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This pattern of argument, which is ubiquitous, is called "Inference to the best explanation."

这种论证模式,十分普遍,被称为,最佳解释推理

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It would be an example of "Inference to the best explanation."

这可以作为一个,最佳解释推论的例子

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Some fact about us that calls out for explanation, and the claim on the part of the dualists was, we couldn't explain it without appealing to a soul.

有些关于我们的事实需要解释,而二元论者的主张是,如果不诉诸灵魂,我们就无法解释这些

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