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理论
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I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
我想我一直对“闭嘴微笑”理论持怀疑态度。虽然我试过，但我从来没有那么容易吞下那颗药丸。
The "trickle-down" theory: The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.
“涓滴效应”理论:穷人必须靠富人扔在餐桌上的残羹剩饭维生，而富人吃得越多，穷人就能吃得越多。
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
对任何物理理论来说，没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路，在这种理论中，它作为一种极限情况而存在。
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
正如你所说，弦理论需要所有这些额外的维度这来自于弦应该如何表现的一致性要求等等。
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
甚至在我来到芝加哥之前，我就对价格分散性的存在产生了兴趣，经济学理论认为，在这种情况下会产生单一的价格。
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
量子理论的数学框架已经通过无数成功的测试，现在被普遍接受为对所有原子现象的一致和准确的描述。
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
即使只有一种可能的统一理论，它也只是一组规则和方程。是什么让方程式充满激情，并创造出一个宇宙让它们来描述?
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
这是一个革命理论还没有找到正确答案的问题，如果有的话。困难在于这两个阶级的经济利益是对立的。
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
为了管理，问题不是遵循一个或多或少有效的理论，而是用手边的任何材料来建造。不可避免的事情必须被接受并加以利用。
A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
我的一个朋友有一个关于天线宝宝的伟大理论，那就是它让我们准备好不动脑筋。让我们为生活在地下世界做好准备。这就是为什么风景如此平坦的原因。
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
能够吸收最多的事实，并坚持这样做，一代又一代，通过所有的意见和细节的变化，是一个理论，必须统治所有的观察。
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
我的理论的主要新颖之处在于，它声称，最迅速的进化变化并不像大多数遗传学家所声称的那样，发生在广泛的、人口众多的物种中，而是发生在创始人人数较少的群体中。
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Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
每一个伟大的击球手都是基于这样一个理论:投手对他的恐惧要多于他对投手的恐惧。
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
认为人类具有非人类完全没有的心理特征的观点与进化论是不一致的。
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
理论原则有时必须为实际利益让路。
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
当激流把一个人冲到一块大石头上时，你必须期待他会尖叫，如果尖叫有时只是一种理论，你也不必感到惊讶。
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
我有一个理论，我们唯一原创的东西就是错误。