It has traditional stories and legends, some quite fanciful, Whose goal it is to explain how and why something is what it is.

它讲述了一些传统故事，有一些还极具想象力，它们试图解释事物的形成方式及成因。

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No, not really. There's nothing in the laws of acoustics here that cause that to be the case.

没有,算不上,没有任何的声学法则,是它的成因

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Freud had some strong claims about sexuality, for why some people are straight and others are gay.

弗洛伊德提出了一些偏激的关于性的假说，这些假说解释了异性恋和同性恋的成因。

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It's important to understand the ancestral diet to see why we've evolved, the biological reasons we are the humans we are today, but it also helps instruct us about what we might happen to do.

了解祖先的饮食结构非常重要,它帮助我们理解人类为何演化,找出造成我们现状的生物学成因,这也有助于我们找到应对方法

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We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.

人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么

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If it's an accident, what's it an accident from?

如果是偶然事件，它的偶然成因是什么？

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