The thesis of 3.091, and this is where the chemistry comes in, is that electronic structure of the elements holds the key to the understanding, not just the chemical bonding, but the long range atomic order.

这是这门课的论点，这是化学的研究点，也就是元素的电子结构,那即是理解的关键，不只是化学键，还有长程的原子排序。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If Frederick Jackson Turner had anything right in "The Frontier Thesis", although he didn't pay hardly any attention to the South, this idea of a safety valve of a West to move to was surely there for slavery.

如果弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳,在《边境论》中有什么正确的言论,那就是,尽管他对南方几乎没有施以任何关注,即这个西进运动是一道安全阀的构想,显然是为奴隶制而设的

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