He was forty years old. Over the years,historians and medical experts have tried to explain the cause of Poe's death.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

If you hope to make it with theory of what people are and how people work, you have to explain and talk about language.

如果你想要理解关于人类本质,及其行为模式的理论,就必须得探讨并解释语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

but if you explain it to your friend that you or she should not have or should have done something,

如果你想要向你的朋友解释，或者她应该做某事的时候，

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Scientists in the United States and other countries have been working to explain the mysterious disappearances of bees.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The better prepared students have to formulate the concepts, so that they can explain them, which really helps.

准备更好的学生得,建立知识概念，那样才能解释他们，这对他们非常有帮助。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This is not a subject that many media programs have tried to explain to very small children.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Scholars have proposed three possible models to explain the formation of Israel. The first is an immigration model.

学者们提出了三种可能的模型,来解释以色列的形成，第一种是移民模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He discusses how scientists over the years have identified the experience and developed theories to explain it.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So it turns out that he could have picked anything to explain this, and hopefully done out the calculation, and we'll do this ourselves.

结果是他可能用任何事情,来解释这个说法，有希望完成这个计算，而且我们将自己做这件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Web site.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Altruism" is the biologists' term meaning kindness,generosity, and evolutionary biologists have worked really hard to explain why animals might evolve to be kind.

利他主义是生物学术语,意思是善良，慷慨，进化生物学家努力去解释,为什么动物进化趋向善良。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I am more than satisfied." "I cannot explain. It is more than I expected, because to meet the pope personally you have to be something special."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They have been invited to Australia to explain their creations to thousands of visitors.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

All of that means we need to explain why these folks do what they end up doing, and we have some hints, but of course we do not know with any certainty or any confidence.

综上所述,我们来想想为什么这些人,要背井离乡呢,我们有一些线索,但是我们并没有有力的证据

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Using x-ray crystallography to obtain snapshots of the ribosome in action, they have been able to explain how the ribosome selects and couples together amino acids to form proteins."

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

According to the soul-theory argument for soul, rather,according to the argument for souls, you needed to believe in souls in order to explain how you could have a person.

根据灵魂理论的说法，或宁可说是灵魂作用的说法，人需要相信灵魂的存在才能解释作为人的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If you have a computer that plays chess and you want to explain how the computer plays chess, it's impossible to do so without talking about the programs and mechanisms inside the computer.

如果你有一台能下国际象棋的计算机,你想要解释计算机是如何下国际象棋的，如果你不谈程序以及计算机的内部结构,那你就不能对它如何下国际象棋,给出解释。

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If that's right, if that's the right thing to say, then what we have to say is, "We don't need to appeal to souls in order to explain emotions and feelings.

如果这是正确的,如果这种说法正确,那么,我们不得不说,我们不需要诉诸灵魂来,解释情感和感觉

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Are there things that the existence of a soul could explain and explain better than the explanation that we would have if we had to limit ourselves to bodies?

是否有某种现象,使得用灵魂存在的假设,能比局限于肉体本身的分析,解释得更好呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To explain the fact that we've got free will, so the objection goes, we have to appeal to-- we have to posit--the existence of a soul, something non-physical, something more than purely physical.

要解释我们有自由意志这一事实,反驳者会说,我们不得不诉诸,或者假定灵魂存在,这里提到的灵魂是非物质并超出物质的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

one important argument was,or really family of arguments was, you need to believe in souls in order to explain why bodies are animated, why people are rational,how they can have personalities, how they can be creative,and so forth.

一个或一系列很重要的说法就是，要相信灵魂的存在才能解释身体的活动，为什么人会有理性和人格，为什么有创造力，诸如此类。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This has got my personality, my memories of growing up in Chicago,becoming a philosopher, my thoughts about what I want to have happen to my children, my fears about how I'm going to explain what's going on to my wife.

这个肉体拥有我的人格，我在芝加哥成长，成为哲学家的记忆，拥有我对孩子将来的期许，有我不知该如何跟妻子解释的恐惧。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In order to explain life, we have to appeal to something more than just atoms.

要解释生命,我们必须诉诸原子以外的其他东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We didn't have a clue back then how to explain life in material terms.

在那个年代,我们还不知道如何从物质的角度去解释生命

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And before we say that the soul view's got the better explanation, we have to ask ourselves, just how much of an explanation is it to say, "Oh I can explain consciousness.

在我们承认,灵魂观点更合理之前,我们必须问问自己,这个观点解释得到底如何,我可以解释意识

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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