They both laughed but it was not because the idea was laughable but because they both so liked it.

他们都笑了，但这并不是因为这个想法很可笑，而是因为他们都很喜欢它。

youdao

Mary began to recover her breath and feel safer because the idea of keeping the secret seemed to please him.

玛丽开始缓过气来，觉得安心多了，因为保守秘密这个主意似乎令他很高兴。

youdao

It sounds paradoxical, because the idea behind this hypothesis is that the red pigment is made in autumn leaves to protect chlorophyll, the light-absorbing chemical, from too much light.

这听起来很矛盾，因为这一假设背后的理念是，树叶在秋天产生的红色素是用于保护叶绿素这种吸收光的化学物质，以免它吸收过多的光。

youdao

In its ruling, the court decided against the patent only because the idea was too abstract.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Foucault, by the way, doesn't mention Nietzsche, but he might very well because Nietzsche's idea of "genealogy" is perhaps the central influence on Foucault's work.

福柯，没有提到尼采，但是他可能很喜欢，因为尼采的“宗谱“理论“,可能是对福柯作品影响最大的了。

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Right? That would be an entirely different matter, wouldn't it, because you would have absolutely no idea whether the question was rhetorical or grammatical, right?

对吧，那将会是一个完全不同的情况，难道不是吗，因为你就会完全不知道,这个问句是修辞型的还是语法型的，对吧？

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Perhaps the financial-advice industry survives because the idea that the future is unknowable is just unsatisfying.

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Gratified, because the idea of inclusive fitness has enormous explanatory power, even for human behaviour.

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It was, to my surprise, much less insipid than the book, perhaps because the idea behind it was so megalomaniacal and so interestingly obsessive.

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