His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Now this may suggest a certain condescension both toward theory and toward literary text, which is not at all intended.

选择这篇文章也许意味着,要对理论和文本进行一定的浓缩，这一点不是我想要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is to say, theory has certain ambitions to a totalization of what can be thought that resembles or rivals philosophy.

也就是说，理论探讨的问题,与哲学相似或相媲美,而且倾向于把它完整化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Another theory says that the stress of having to pay constant attention to survive leads to Third Man hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Darwin had been working on his theory for over twenty years when he published " On the Origin of Species."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But before we do that, I wanted to just make a few concluding remarks about source theory and the Pentateuch.

但在我们开始之前，我想做一个总结,并且来源理论和摩西五经。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Also,the broken windows theory did not fully investigate the exact conditions of disorders that appeared to lead to crime.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

First of all, he wanted to imbed in his upcoming high potentials the user application of really advanced investment theory.

首先，他希望,即将到来的潜力人才,学会运用,先进的投资理论。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

One argument against the comet theory is that a comet would have left a large hole in the Earth's surface.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

And he has a theory about early life and perfectly appropriate as far as one can tell of what pre-human form he studied.

他有一个有关早期生命的理论,一般人都会觉得很正常,他研究人类之前的生命形式没有什么不合适。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The researchers had a theory. They thought that people who were bitten by infected mosquitoes,but recovered, were protected in the future.

VOA: special.2011.05.31

When we did the spring, we had this theory of Hooke's Law that told us something, and we built a simulation, or built some tools around that theory.

当我们写弹簧程序的时候,我们有胡克定律来告诉我们原理，然后我们建立了一个仿真模型，或者说是在这个理论基础上建立了一些工具。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

His theory of Martian life became so complex that he made maps of cities and waterways on the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Now the Lady responds to what we can think of as his aristocratic debauchery with an economic theory of her own, and we haven't looked at that yet.

这位女士以我们可以想到的方式做出回应,由于对她提出的图利的理论和他本身的贵族气息的放荡，这一点我们还没有读到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The theory explains that as the sea floor spreads, the tectonic plates are pushed and pulled in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

No,according to the personality theory, what personal identity requires isn't item-for-item the same personality, but rather the same evolving personality.

不，根据人格理论，个人认同感并不需要一个完全相同的人格，而是同样在进化的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In nineteen eighty-two, American researchers James Wilson and George Kelling wrote a report describing what they called the broken windows theory.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

This is one respectable theory, but the alternative is they have the right knowledge, but they suffer from problems with inhibition.

这是一个被广泛接受的理论,但另一种观点则认为,婴儿拥有恰当的知识,只不过是他们无法解决抑制的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And she explains the theory of evolution through natural selection in a way that both children and adults will enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

He urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Studies support the theory that there are several causes, instead of a single environmental cause or genetic problem.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Well, one of the lessons of this course is we have a wonderful theory, but we don't manage it well, mostly.

我们在这门课里可以学到的一点是,我们拥有很好的理论，但在实践中却总是不能应用得当。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The researchers had a theory. They thought that people who were bitten by infected mosquitoes, but recovered, were protected in the future.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Now in addition to defining literature, literary theory also asks questions obviously not unrelated but which open up the field somewhat.

除了定义文学以外，文学理论还提出一些,显然不是不相关，却开辟了新领域的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Charles Darwin developed the theory of how living things develop from simpler organisms over long periods of time.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A separate study found no support for a theory that a biomarker called C-reactive protein causes heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Science is very hostile to innovation when it challenges existing theory, sort of like management, the same thing.

科学对创新是有敌意的,当创新在挑战已存在的理论，跟管理一样，同样的道理。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选