to make a question a little bit more polite, a little bit softer.

这样可以让整个句子显得更有礼貌，也更为温和。

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Tajfel The psychologist Tajfel after World War II was interested in the question of what could make a group.

二战后一位心理学家,很有兴趣研究群体是如何形成的。

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So here's my attempt to make the question both a bit more precise, and a question that's an open question.

我正尝试,让这两个问题变得更准确,这是个开放性的问题

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Does that make sense? Kate did you have a question?

你们都理解了吗,凯特,你有问题吗

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really you can turn it on its face to make it a question.

你也可以对它稍加变形，将这个句型变成一个疑问句。

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Questions make a difference, which is why it is also important to ask the positive psychology question, which is the salutogenic question: ? "What is source of health? What is the source of success?

疑问引起改变，因此提问是非常重要的,提出积极心理学的问题很重要，也就是“健康创成“的问题：,“健康源于什么？成功源于什么？

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The "is it okay" question pattern is something that you can use to make your speech a little less formal.

is it okay”问句能够让你说的话不过于正式。

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It just reinforces the point that I was trying to make a few moments ago that the crucial question is not survival per se.

这将强化我刚才试图阐明的一点,就是关键问题不是存在本身。

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You might not want to know all of it and that's a really complicated question for an individual to figure out and a complicated question for society to figure out, what you want to make of available in the regard.

你不想什么都知道,这是个十分复杂的问题,无论是对个人,还是对社会都是如此,我们应该怎样控制它的使用范围

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