The researchers did not try to identify the causes of the increase, but they have some theories.

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Most of what we do these days, our methods, our theories, our ideas, are shaped, to some extent, by Piaget's influence.

我们这些天所讲的,各种方法,理论,思想,它们的形成都在一定程度上,受到了皮亚杰的影响

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If we're going to have a way to decide between these two theories, it seems as though we need some other kind of arguments.

如果我们非要找个方法在两个理论之间取舍，那看来我们需要别的论据。

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So, that's not exactly the case and we're going to start in at the point where right around this time of great confidence of feeling all has been conquered, there are some observations and discoveries that are made that completely break down these theories.

把测量弄的更精确一点,但事实并不如他说的这样,我们就要从这时候谈起,当时人们十分有信心的,觉得已经征服了一切问题,但有一些实验和观察,彻底粉碎了这种看法。

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I can't bring myself to believe it, I have some sympathies for valuable container theories, but I also have some sympathy for neutral container theories.

我无法让自己去相信它，我有点赞同有价值容器理论，但是我也有点赞同中性容器理论。

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Some rival theories about what makes life worth living.

一些关于什么让生命值得活下去的反对理论。

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Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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