这个看法有点像工具主义的思想。

This opinion bears some resemblance to the instrumentalist ideas.

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产品要像工具一样能够达成某种目的。

Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools.

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像工具提示建议的那样，构建插件将完成大量工作。

Like the tool tip suggests, the build plug-in does a lot.

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We have theories--mathematical theories-- that lead us to devise financial structures, which are complicated devices just like engines or nuclear reactors.

金融学中的理论,数学理论,能帮助我们构造金融工具,金融工具就像发动机,或者核反应堆一样,都是复杂的工具

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The financial situation is not as bad as it was in the 1930s but it's getting bad and as a result we're starting to see proposals for big change.

现在的金融衍生工具已经不像当年那么拙劣了,但是它却开始走下坡路,所以最后的结果是,我们不得不准备着新的变革。

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Well what you do is you bomb the food and you use something called the bomb calorimeter that looks like this, and so essentially what you do is you put the food in this device that sits inside water.

我们要做的是燃烧食物,使用一种叫弹式量热器的工具,像这样,把食物放入这种仪器中,仪器会浸入水里

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