It's a very appealing kind of a priori theory, but the thing about theories is they're supposed to make predictions.

这是一个很有吸引力的早期理论，但是理论的意义在于,它们可以被用来进行预测。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People to this day are looking for a theory of everything. And there is something very appealing about the notion that the rules that govern the motion of heavenly bodies might be applicable down at atomic dimensions.

现在人们总想寻求一些,可以阐明一切的理论,而这里正好有一些,可以吸引这种想法的东西,即支配天体运动的规则,可能对原子的尺寸也是适用的。

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This was a very--a single experiment done within the United States, but the idea is appealing, that people are connected to one another via chains of people.

这个实验是在美国做的，但它揭示了一个很有趣的规律，人都是通过一连串的人和另一个人有着某种关联。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This may sound appealing enough, but here I have to issue a warning.

也许听起来蛮动人，不过我要事先提个醒。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some fact about us that calls out for explanation, and the claim on the part of the dualists was, we couldn't explain it without appealing to a soul.

有些关于我们的事实需要解释,而二元论者的主张是,如果不诉诸灵魂,我们就无法解释这些

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's a very appealing assumption I think in a democracy.

这是个在民主制国家非常诱人的假设

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's marketing, it's economics, it's the environment is set up in such a way to make these foods very appealing and very attractive to people, and that's why they eat them.

是市场营销的诱导,是经济效益的驱使,是社会环境的影响使得,这些垃圾食品对人们来说极具吸引力,这也是人们喜欢吃垃圾食品的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This would probably-- this by the way would probably look more appealing if you were in the restaurant, but somebody took a photograph, they got the carry out version of it and took a photograph and it doesn't look so hot.

这个可能,照片角度可能看起来更有吸引力,如果你们在餐馆里,拍了一张照片,选好了角度然后拍了张照,那看起来不会有这么好吃

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