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Some people arrived in the territory to claim their land earlier than they were supposed to.
VOA: special.2009.08.23
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In fact, we have some claim, and a Roman writer later on, that there was a treaty back in the eighth century B.C.
实际上,之后一个罗马作家,写到过一些声明,公元前八世纪在埃维厄岛几个城邦之间
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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.
因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论
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Some of these NASA workers claim efforts to redeploy their skills in other areas come too late with just four shuttle missions remaining.
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
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We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.
口头上相信我们会死一事，在某种程度上，我们并不真正相信。
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Some of them are unique to one source, some are not, but ultimately the claim is that these have all been merged, and have left us then with an overall total of ten. This may in fact be true.
有些瘟疫只有一个出处，有些则不是,最重要的是，它们被混在一起,流传下来的，就有了十次瘟疫，也许真的有。
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a claim for the individual's capacity to make a moral judgment after some period of trial, or after some period of experimentation.
个人在一段时间的尝试后,或是在一段时间的实验后，去做正确判断的能力。
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Even though some defenders of that particular movement claim it didn't happen, like David Brooks tried to claim in The New York Times.
尽管一些参与这些运动的人辩护,说事实并非如此,如戴维·布鲁克斯在《纽约时报》的文章
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The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.
希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力
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I've found some people really have to come to the first and second row because they claim that if they don't hear me they cannot really go to sleep.
我发现有些人必须得在第一,二排睡觉,因为他们说如果听不到我的声音,他们就无法入睡
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It's a truth claim of some kind--right?
在某种意义上说，这是一种真理，是吧？
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Firms that do that are, in practice, however, the minority and most mutual funds have some gimmick or some special-- they claim to be beating the market not forming the optimal portfolio.
然而实际上,这么做的公司很少,大部分共同基金都会耍些花招,或有一些特别的...,他们强调他们的收益率将强于市场平均水平,而非建立最佳投资组合
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Now, maybe there's some other reason to believe the claim that nobody believes they will cease to exist.
现在，也许还有另一些原因让人相信,没有人会相信自己会死亡。
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Plato's actually going to give us some arguments for pretty much that same claim.
事实上柏拉图会给我们一些,相似的论据来证明
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So, in general, there is some support, at least at a very broad level, for the claim that language is in some sense part of human nature.
总的来说,语言在某种意义上,是人类本性一部分的这个观点,至少在一般性水平上,得到了一些支持
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Well, there are some basic facts that support Darwin's claim.
达尔文的观点得到了一些基本事实的支持
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Think of some simple mathematical claim like 2 + 2 = 4.
举些简单的数学论断,如2 + 2 = 4
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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.
对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。
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And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.
达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同
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And there are some philosophers and psychologists who do just that, who claim that free will and responsibility and spiritual value and intrinsic value are all illusions; they're pre-scientific notions that get washed away in modern science or you could try to reconcile them.
一些哲学家和心理学家便是如此,他们认为,自由意志,责任,精神价值,内在价值,这些都是幻象,都是些前科学的概念,应当从现代科学中清洗出去,或者你可以试着将二者调和
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Some fact about us that calls out for explanation, and the claim on the part of the dualists was, we couldn't explain it without appealing to a soul.
有些关于我们的事实需要解释,而二元论者的主张是,如果不诉诸灵魂,我们就无法解释这些
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Our challenge is to find some other interpretation of the claim.
我们需要找到对这个说法的其他诠释。
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The trick--The question we're going to ask is, can we find some interpretation of that claim under which, first of all it ends up being true, secondly,it ends up being a necessary truth about death?
关键我们要问的问题是，我们能否能对这说法找到一个诠释，首先，这个诠释必须是真实的，第二，这是对死亡来说必要的真实？
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If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.
如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。
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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.
也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。
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But maybe I've just been flatfooted here in thinking that " this is some sort of claim about not being with others, " or things I do by myself.
但也许我考虑这个问题的时候太直接了,认为这说法只是关于“不和他人一起，或者“我自己一人的经历。
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Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.
语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究
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