那是在过去，还没有到开关一响就有电的时代。

That was in the days before electricity was available at the flick of a switch.

《牛津词典》

能否进入普林斯顿大学念书并非性命交关的事——时任《纽约时代周刊》的编辑洛伦•普柏在几年前就有了这种看法。

That getting into Princeton isn't a life-or-death matter hit home years ago for Loren Pope, then the education editor of The New York Times.

youdao

它就有一件事做得好，可是现在时代思潮转向而不利于它了。

It is good at one thing, and for now the zeitgeist has turned against it.

youdao

No, and there's several demonstrations at the time of Skinner suggesting that they don't.

答案是否定的，早在斯金纳的时代就已经有证据表明,动物无需强化与惩罚也能进行学习。

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And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.

追溯到苏格拉底时代，就有这样一段对话，在《高尔吉亚篇》中，苏格拉底的一位朋友，卡里克利斯，试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。

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