Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

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but if you explain it to your friend that you or she should not have or should have done something,

如果你想要向你的朋友解释，或者她应该做某事的时候，

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's not something that you can either explain in word or describe.

不是你可以用言语,来解释和描述的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We started with the idea you needed to appeal to souls in order to roughly explain why human bodies move, why we're animated or why we move in nonrandom ways.

一开始,我们诉诸于灵魂这样一个概念,是为了解释,为何人类的肉体能移动,为何我们有生命力,为何我们能够非随机性的运动

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You can turn it in on either Monday or Wednesday, and typically with the exception of the first week, which I'll explain in just a minute the concept sheet should deal with the information that's relevant to that week, so the readings, the lectures, or something that's going on in that particular week.

你们可以在周一或周三交,通常情况下,除了第一周情况特殊,我稍后会解释,你们的观点报告应当包含,与当前那周课程相关的内容,包括阅读资料和讲座,或在那个星期发生的别的事

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, for example, when people, and we'll talk about this next class, were looking at different characteristics spectra of different atoms, what they were seeing is that it appeared to be these very discreet lines that were allowed or not allowed for the different atoms to emit, but they had no way to explain this using classical physics.

举个例子，当大家看到,不同原子的特征光谱时,他们看到的是一些分离的线,那可以使不同的原子,发射或不发射出去，但是这些无法用经典物理来解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You want to use the "so ~ that" pattern to help you explain why you can or can't do something.

使用 “so ~ that”句型可以帮助你解释你能够或者不能够做某事的原因。

so that 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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。

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one important argument was,or really family of arguments was, you need to believe in souls in order to explain why bodies are animated, why people are rational,how they can have personalities, how they can be creative,and so forth.

一个或一系列很重要的说法就是，要相信灵魂的存在才能解释身体的活动，为什么人会有理性和人格，为什么有创造力，诸如此类。

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Because positing them allows you explain things about the rotation of the star or the gravitational fluctuations, what have you.

因为这样假定能帮助你解释,诸如星体运行,引力波动,等现象

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I don't expect you to learn that, or even retain it unless I explain the concepts in class, or unless they're explained quite well in the paper itself.

我不要求你们掌握这个,更别提记忆了,除非我在课上做了讲解,或者它们在文章中解释的非常透彻了

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Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团,物理主义对此束手无策,而二元论者,却能解释它们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One group of arguments for the existence of a soul says, "We need to posit a soul in order to explain something, whether it's something everyday or something supernatural."

主张灵魂存在的一方声称,我们必须假设灵魂存在,才能解释一些,司空见惯或是超自然的现象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Depending on what F you fill in the blank with, what pet feature or fact you're trying to explain by appeal to the soul, you get a different argument.

根据你所挑选的不同功能特性F,以及你试图解释的现象或事实,诉诸于灵魂来进行解释,你会得到不同的论点

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If we could find the right F, and make out the argument, the physicalist can't explain it or does a bad job of explaining it and the dualist does a better job of explaining it, we'd have reason to believe in the soul.

如果我们能找到合适的特性F,并且给出论证,物理主义者无法解释,或者解释得很牵强,而二元论的解释更合理,那么我们就有理由相信有灵魂存在

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We posit--or the fans of souls posit-- the existence of souls so as to explain something that needs explaining about us.

我们 或者灵魂论的拥护者们假设,灵魂是存在的,这就能解释一些我们自身不解的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So something about fat is driving people and as I'll explain in a subsequent lecture, What would it be about fat that makes it more reinforcing then protein or carbohydrate?

至于脂肪如何为人们供能,我会在以后的课上解释这点,为什么脂肪比蛋白质或碳水化合物,更能让机体变强

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The argument I'm about to sketch is a purely philosophical argument, not really so much a matter of who can explain this or that feature of us better than anybody else.

我接下来要介绍的,是一个纯粹的哲学论证,并非绝对意义上的,解释优劣决定孰强孰弱

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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