The team are now putting their theory to the test.

该团队正在检验他们的理论。

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The article advances a new theory to explain changes in the climate.

这篇文章提出了一个解释气候变化的新理论。

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They can better apply theory to practice.

他们能更好地把理论运用到实践中去。

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It was not until eighteen fifty-eight that Darwin was forced to release his theory to the public.

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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Why aren't I allowing the soul theory to say, "Don't blame us. We don't know how to explain it yet."

而又为什么不允许灵魂理论说,别责怪我们,我们只是还不知道怎么去解释

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For McQuown, Vasicek and Kealhofer, the road from theory to practice had some gaping potholes.

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Applying optical theory to O. wendtii lenses suggests that they would, indeed, behave in that way.

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So they have come up with their own creative conspiracy theory to explain away the improvement.

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