I have this theory that most people prefer being at work to being at home.

依我看，多数人喜欢工作而不愿待在家里。

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Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being.

尽管戏剧起源于宗教仪式的说法目前是最被大众认可的，但这并非戏剧起源的唯一定论。

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The hurdles for these private sales are lower than for public offerings, the theory being that the buyers - large, supposedly sophisticated investors - can do their own homework.

这些私人配售比公开发售的障碍要低。这个理论来自于买家，也是多数富有经验，可以做好他们的本份的投资者。

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This being a Game Theory class, there's at least one game we have to discuss and we've come to it now.

既然这门课叫博弈论,我们就得学习一下接下来要讲的模型

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During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

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So again the point I was just emphasizing was even if we accept the personality theory, this doesn't threaten our being physicalists.

我刚才再次强调的一点,即使我们接受了人格论，也不会和物理主义学者的身份冲突。

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The smog didn't bother Gary, his theory being that a two-packs-a-day habit had immunized him against airborne crud.

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His motivation was mainly to make agents happy, the theory being that happy workers sound better on the phone than morose ones.

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The theory being, if you cut enough deductions, the same level of net tax revenue can be maintained despite a nearly 20% drop in the top rate.

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