To test the theory, he asked more than sixty college students to take part in an experiment.

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That makes the subject matter that we'll be discussing this week, as I say, as much a part of the history of criticism as it is of literary theory.

这样一来，我们这周的内容就变得至关重要了，就像我说过的那样，我们将学习到文学理论方面,乃至评论史上重要的一章。

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It has to be part of a theory, and then trying to adjust it so it can be incorporated, you discover anti-particles.

要想使理论合理,然后试着去调整,使之和实际相符,结果就找到了反粒子

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Now this is interesting, Hacking says, because it shows that sampling theory was part of Nala's theory.

哈金说,这很有趣,抽样理论是那勒所学知识的一部分

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All of that is the legacy of literary theory, and as I say, it arises in part from the element of skepticism that I thought it best to emphasize today.

这都是文学理论的遗产，我说过，它部分源自于怀疑论元素,我想最好在今天强调一下。

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If we accept this version of the body theory, we say the crucial part of the body for personal identity is not, saying The crucial part of the body is the sameness of brain.

如果我们接受了肉体论的这个版本，我们就承认了人格统一性,最关键的肉体部位并不在于,要人格同一，肉体最重要的部位是,同样的大脑。

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At this level of abstraction, plainly there isn't all that much incentive to apply thinking of that kind, but on the other hand undoubtedly theory does exist for the most part to be applied.

就这门课程中理论的抽象程度而言，没必要把它,用于实践，但是在绝大多数情况下,理论无疑都是为了实践而存在。

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Literary theory just takes those for granted as part of the sense experience, as one might say, of any reader and prefers, rather, to dwell on questions of description, analysis and speculation, as I've said.

文学理论把这些,当作是读者感性认识的一部分，它更喜欢讨论关于描述，分析和猜测的问题，正如我之前，说过的那样。

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