Such people are so afraid of being labeled a failure at anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order to explain away failure.

这些人在任何事情上都非常害怕被标记为失败者，以至于为了给自己的失败开脱而不断制造出这样或那样的障碍。

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The professor mentions a conversation between two servants in order to explain how playwrights develop the obligatory scene of a well-made play.

教授提到了两个仆人之间的对话，以解释剧作家如何建立起一部好剧本中必不可少的场景。

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You need the soul in order to explain free will.

那就是我们需要灵魂来解释自由意志

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Our genetics cannot change this quickly in order to explain the increase in incidence."

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We need to add something else in order to explain what is going on in the Periodic Table.

我们需要引其他一些东西进来才能解释清楚,元素周期表中发生的这种现象。

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So let's ask ourselves, "Are there things that we need to appeal to the soul in order to explain these things about us?"

所以让我们扪心自问,有没有这样的现象,需要我们诉诸于灵魂,才能对其作出合理的解释

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But before we go there, a quick rewind is in order to explain why this research was conducted.

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In traditional Gundlach fashion, the manager spent most of his time referencing art and history in order to explain the current economic environment.

FORBES: Connect

Is it necessary, for example, to refer to the work on battle fatigued second-world-war soldiers, in order to explain the despair of the castaways?

ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea