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

And, Democritus moves from practice to theory.

德谟克利特从理论实践转变。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The mutual fund industry is supposedly, and according to theory, doing this for you.

共同基金产业据称，理应为人们完成如上的这些计算。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.02.24

That is to say, theory has certain ambitions to a totalization of what can be thought that resembles or rivals philosophy.

也就是说，理论探讨的问题,与哲学相似或相媲美,而且倾向于把它完整化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

So the moral here, again, is whenever you're doing an implementation of a simulation, you do need to have some underlying theory about the model.

所以这里的寓意还是,不管你在做什么东西的仿真程序，你需要有一个,模型的底层程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.12.01

After all,according to the body theory of personal identity, for somebody to be me,they've got to have my body.

说到底，根据个人认同感的肉体理论，要成为我，必须有我的身体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Hughes tells us that Milton's thinking of Plato and that the Elder Brother is referring to the platonic theory that the noble spirit is released from the body after death.

休斯告诉我们，弥尔顿引用了柏拉图的东西,大哥用的是柏拉图的理论,人死后，高尚的灵魂将从身体释放出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.08.03

All right, so that's really all there is to thinking about valence bond theory in terms of the most simple explanation here.

好了，这就是,价电子轨道理论的,最简单的解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.08.18

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

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It was not until eighteen fifty-eight that Darwin was forced to release his theory to the public.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

According to this theory, the atoms consist of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by a stream of electrons kept together by attractive forces from the nucleus.

根据这个理论，原子由一个带正电荷的核组成,由于来自核的吸引力,电子流围绕在核的周围。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

One theory is that the military could object if the ruling party looks for friendship with South Korea to help save North Korea's economy.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

So raise your hand if you are among the libertarians who's prepared to stand up for the theory and respond to the objections.

如果你是自由主义者，准备好站出来捍卫它,回应那些质疑,请举手。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Others say the evidence is important, but that more evidence is needed to confirm the theory.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Now, let's go back to a theory which has at least got the virtue of being very old, although hardly anybody believes it anymore.

现在,让我们再回去看一个理论,它的优势在于非常古老,虽然已经没人再相信它

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But Professor Gaechter says his team's theory was that punishment has only low costs because it needs to be used rarely and works as a threat.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

So, to illustrate Skinnerian theory in operant conditioning, I'll give an example of training a pig.

为了说明斯金纳的操作性条件作用理论，我会给大家举一个训练猪的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She said the discovery "supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts."

VOA: special.2009.09.30

And I think, again, that too is central to Hobbes' theory of the sovereign.

我想，这一点也是霍布斯,关于君权理论中很关键的一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

His theory was that the devices and body should remain firm, allowing the strings to vibrate longer and sustain a sound.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is just theory,he says. He says he has to go out to garden with them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

That is to say for many, many, many people literary theory had something to do with the end of civilization as we know it.

这就是说对于很多很多人来说,文学理论与,我们所知道的文明的结束有些关联。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now I suppose it's my reluctance to get into the intricacies of questions having to do with applied theory that makes me prefer to keep it simple.

我不愿意在,应用理论上纠结,因此想把它简单化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选