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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For what it is worth, however, my layman's view is that the available data remains so inconclusive, if not dispositive against the global warming hypothesis, as to argue against making such efforts at the expense of America's economic growth and the quality of life of its citizens.

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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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