He was an unswerving empiricist with little time for theory.

他是一位坚定不渝的经验主义者，鲜有时间去研究理论。

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The second theory—possibly an urban myth—is that concerned parents in several states proposed bans on metal lunch boxes, claiming kids were using them as "weapons" to hit one another.

第二种理论——很可能是一个荒诞的都市说法——几个州担忧的父母提议禁止使用金属午餐盒，声称孩子们会把它们当作“武器“来互相攻击。

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This line of reasoning underlies an exciting new theory of spiral-galaxy structure.

这一推理路线是一个令人兴奋的螺旋星系结构新理论的基础。

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To test the theory, he asked more than sixty college students to take part in an experiment.

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It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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So the moral here, again, is whenever you're doing an implementation of a simulation, you do need to have some underlying theory about the model.

所以这里的寓意还是,不管你在做什么东西的仿真程序，你需要有一个,模型的底层程序。

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Although Wells has escaped Mr Grundhofer's embrace and is in theory an equal partner with Norwest, Norwest is clearly in the driving seat.

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In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.

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Though it may seem harsh for an employer to dismiss someone because they went to a political rally on a Saturday, at least in theory, an employer could do so, says Hurd, except in the four states with the off-duty political activity exceptions.

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