So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.

我们会谈到某人所提出的,关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And to do this we're going to introduce valence bond theory, and the idea of hybridization of orbitals.

在这之前我们要引入价电子成键理论，和杂化轨道的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?

如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑，会引起怎样的后果呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The idea of probability theory is that no, you can't change things, there are all these objective laws of probability out there that guide everything.

而概率论的观点是,不,你无法改变事物,世间万物遵循客观的概率,它们即是定律

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can take or leave literary theory, fine, but the idea that there would be such an incredible outcry against it was one of the most fascinating results of it.

上这门课也可以退掉这门课，都行，但是这种难以置信的强烈抗议,是开这门课最迷人的结果之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It really is probability theory and the idea of spreading risk through risk pooling.

就是概率论,以及通过风险汇聚来分摊风险

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, underlying our theory is the idea that we measure the outcome of your investment in your portfolio by the mean of the return on the portfolio and the variance of the return on the portfolio.

而理论的基础是,我们通过计算,组合收益率的均值，和组合收益率的方差,来衡量一个投资组合的优劣。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选