The point he was making was that if it's a good hypothesis, you can test it.

他的意思是，一个好的假设是可以验证的。

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"You can spin an evolutionary argument for pretty much anything that you see," he contended, making it "more of a rationalization than a testable hypothesis."

他接着批评说，“你可以认为任何你所看到的事情都是进化的结果，”这种解释看似合理，但却并非一个可验证的假设。

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While the two-hit hypothesis is useful conceptually, making predictions for particular individuals is still a challenge.

虽然这“两步假设法”理论上行得通，可是要预测特定个体，依然是一个挑战。

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That seems to be one way of making sense of the city/soul hypothesis, but again it doesn't seem to answer the question ? in what way are cities and individuals alike.

那似乎是,解释城灵假说的一种方式，但似乎仍未回答基本的问题,城市与个人间到底有何相似之处。

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The second hypothesis is that Mathilde is much hollower than she appears, making her more a floating heap of rubble than a solid rock.

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