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.

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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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And the family of arguments that we're considering initially are arguments that get known as inference or inferences to the best explanation.

我们首先会想到的一类,则是那种,被称作推理的论证,或叫做,最佳解释推理

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Freud uses it as an explanation for why somebody might eat too much or chew gum or smoke.

弗洛伊德用口腔期人格,来解释为什么会有人暴饮暴食,嚼口香糖或是抽烟。

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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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The idea is, he's going to tell us certain facts that need explaining, and the best explanation involves a certain fact about recollecting, or a certain claim about recollecting or remembering.

大意是,他要,告诉我们一些需要解释的现象,以及对其最好的解释,这包括一些回忆的例子,或者一些有关回忆的说法

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Or is the physicalist explanation the more likely one?

还是物理主义的解释

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There is rationalization, which is that when you do something or think something bad you rationalize it and you give it a more socially acceptable explanation.

还有合理化，是指当你做坏事或有不良想法时,你会将行为合理化,为行为寻找一个更为社会接受的解释。

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In other words, Freud, Sophocles, all of the other versions I have at my disposal, have equal merit as versions, but none of them is a transcendental signified, none of them is a blanket term, and none of them is the causal explanation or meaning of the myth.

换句话说，弗洛伊德，索福克勒斯，还有所有其它供我使用的版本，都用同样的优点，但它们中没有一个是超验所指，没有一个是概括性话语，没有一个是神话的随意解释或意义。

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