Currently,the best explanation for the loss of methane is that it chemically reacts with dust in the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For them,evolution opposed the explanation of creation found in the book of Genesis in the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Lord Ashburton said Britain regretted that it had not made some explanation or apology for the sinking of an American boat in the Niagara River.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Victor Weisskopf's suggestion resulted in an explanation of how electrons travel through semiconductors.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

So the problem though is that they were looking in the wrong place for the explanation.

所以问题是,他们找答案找错了地方。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But the first explanation of evolution in public caused little reaction.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And there's no explanation in the text.

但是文中并没有解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And you saw some of the beginnings of an explanation offered in the reading by Schick and Vaughn.

你们可以看到希克和沃恩在阅读材料里,对某个解释做了一个开头

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the explanation of what's bad for me,in his having died, is the fact that it's bad for him to have died.

但他的死亡对我来说不好的地方，却同样也是对他不好的方面。

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Here is the explanation of why those 2 things work differently in the reassembling cases.

现在我给你们讲解一下为何,这两个重组例子的结果会不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Appeal to a physical body suffices, I think, to have an explanation as to the difference between an animated and an inanimate body, how bodies will move in nonrandom ways.

我认为,如果我们能分辨生命体和,非生命体的区别,理解我们的非随机行为,就足以解释有关物理的肉体的一切问题了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Still, that doesn't mean that we should believe the argument for the existence of the soul from near-death experiences, because the question remains, "What's the best explanation of what's going on in near-death experiences?"

但是,这并不意味着,我们应该相信那些从濒死体验角度,来证明灵魂存在的论证,因为问题仍在,对于濒死体验的,最好解释是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What we're justified in believing are those things that we need, not simply when they would offer us some kind of explanation, but when they offer us the best explanation that we can think of.

我们确信我们需要某些东西,不仅在于它们为我们提供了某种解释,还在于它们能使我们,想出的最佳解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We can still say the reason that we got the same personality in the normal case that some physical explanation of whether person, what houses the personality, but for all that, the key to personal identity is same personality.

我们还可以说清楚,在一般情况下如何得到,同样的人格，我们得弄清楚,是什么储存了人格,但是首先我们得认可,人格同一性的关键在于同样的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in a moment, I'll ask whether it's the best possible explanation, but before we do turn to that question, there is an objection to this entire way of looking at things that's probably worth pausing for a moment and considering.

而马上,我要问你们这是否是最好的解释,但在我们转向那个问题之前,有一个对这一整套,看待问题的方式的反驳,或许值得我们稍微停留并考虑一番

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选