His theory of Martian life became so complex that he made maps of cities and waterways on the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

In other words, Brooks is not interested in developing a theory of the author or a theory of character.

换句话说，布鲁克斯不想展开对,作者或者角色的理论研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This question of determinism is as important in the discourse of literary theory as the question of skepticism.

在文学理论的话语中,决定论的问题和怀疑论的问题是同等重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Another theory says that the stress of having to pay constant attention to survive leads to Third Man hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So, the personality theory of personal identity can be accepted by physicalists, and it can be accepted by dualists.

因此人格同一性的人格论,既可以被物理主义学者接受,也可以被二元论者接受。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Also,the broken windows theory did not fully investigate the exact conditions of disorders that appeared to lead to crime.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The theory of the term structure is the theory of how interest rates differ according to maturity or term.

利率期限结构理论就是,怎样由不同的期限,产生不同的利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Darwin had been working on his theory for over twenty years when he published " On the Origin of Species."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

And his discoveries that-- they did them in different ways at different ages led to the emergence of the Stage Theory.

他发现,儿童在不同的年龄拥有不同的行为方式,他根据这一发现提出了阶段理论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Studies support the theory that there are several causes, instead of a single environmental cause or genetic problem.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

So you will sometimes see as you are reading the text, they will sometimes refer to Horeb instead of Mount Sinai, or you'll see the two names used interchangeably. And it's been the theory of scholars that that's because it comes from a different source.

所以，有时在你阅读的文本中，它会提到和烈山,而不是西奈山，或者你会看到这两个名字,互换着用，根据学者的理论解释，这是因为,这两个名字来源于不同的资料。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Charles Darwin developed the theory of how living things develop from simpler organisms over long periods of time.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

I like the engineering theory of it. That's what I liked.

我喜欢这里面的工程理论，那就是我所爱。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Recent studies also support a theory that a combination of genes is linked to the development of lupus.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Even the development of this theory of absolute rule is in response to the rise of these territorial states like Spain, and France, and Russia later.

绝对主义理论的发展,是与领土国的兴起相呼应,像西班牙,法国,以及后来的俄国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Yet it was the work of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that pushed Darwin to finally release his theory.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

And if they can't, what are the consequences for the utilitarian theory of morality?

如果不能，那么功利主义道德理论意义何在？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He developed the theory of evolution that life on Earth developed through the process of natural selection.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Now "The Theory of the Formal Method," Eikhenbaum's essay that you've read for today, was written in 1927.

这篇，形式语言学理论“,是艾肯鲍姆，在1927年写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One theory is that the shape developed over the ages to improve this shark's sense of smell.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Let's take a few minutes and consider the nature of the body theory, the body theory of personal identity.

我们先来探讨,人格同一性的肉体论的，基本性质。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In his early years, Mister Galbraith was greatly influenced by the economist Thorstein Veblen and his book, "The Theory of the Leisure Class."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In it,he developed a theory that intelligent life had created waterways all over the surface of Mars.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

If you follow through from the independent theory, there's one of the basic relations in probability theory-- it's called the binomial distribution.

如果继续往下看,在概率论里有一个基本的概念,叫做二项分布

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Still,a theory exists that amyloid plaques are an effect of the disease, not the cause.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

He developed the theory of classical conditioning by making a distinction between two sorts of conditioning, two sorts of stimulus response relationships.

他通过区分两种条件作用,两种刺激反应关系，提出了经典条件作用理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, that's the sense of theory that I like to work with, and I would pause over it by saying that after all, there is a difference and practice and we shouldn't too quickly, at least, confuse the terms.

我想在此讨论的就是理论的这种解释，不过我想补充一句，理论和实践是两回事,至少我们不能混淆这两个名词。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选