I'm not--it's not my goal here to argue for or against these theological possibilities, having at least taken the time to explain philosophically how we could make sense of them.

我的目的不是想要争辩,这些神学上的可能，花时间来从哲学上解释,我们如何弄清这些道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, during the time of his interactions with Thompson and Rutherford, he got to thinking about a way to explain the observations of Rutherford.

通过在这段时期,和汤姆逊及卢瑟福的交流，他想到了一个办法,来解释卢瑟福的观察。

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I keep waiting for somebody-- I think the time is right for somebody to come up with a theory and explain it by global warming.

我一直期待有人-,我认为是时候有人出现,用全球变暖来解释它

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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And to try to explain why it was that absolute rule came to europe at the time it did, one has to not only look at the particular structures of states, but one has to look at the overview and the sheer horror of it all.

要解释为什么绝对主义在这个时候遍行于欧洲,我们不仅要着眼于各国特有的社会结构,还要纵观全局,了解当时社会上的恐慌

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