Economists point out that the current jobless rate is already higher than the hypothetical rate that was used to calculate the health of banks and other financial institutions in so-called "stress tests" earlier this year.

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Back to our hypothetical, you know, our initial discussion of Flaming Hot Cheetos: by his definition that would not qualify as food.

再回过头来谈谈我们之前的假定,我们曾讨论过关于火焰辣奇多的问题,按照他的定义,奇多不能算作食物

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But then developments in other fields can change the relative prices and suddenly make an idea that had been hypothetical and unapplied suddenly work well.

而其他领域的发展,改变了相对价格,过去那些看似空想,而且不切实际的主意,就突然间变得可行了

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Well I made up some answers too and let's just use these as hypothetical examples.

我也想了一些答案,我们仅把这些作为假定的判断标准

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If you want to, you could think of this class as one big hypothetical.

如果你想，你可以把它想象成一个大的假设。

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With this basic principle of utility on hand, let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case, another story, but this time, not a hypothetical story, a real life story, the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens.

有了这条最基本的功利原则，让我们检验一下这条原则,是否适用于另一案例，而这一次，就不再是假定的事件了，是个真实的故事，女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案。

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These laws of nature, as he describes them, do not issue categorical commands so much as Y sort of hypothetical rules. If you want X, do Y; if you want peace, here are the means to it.

如霍布斯所述，这些自然法，不如假设的规则发布的绝对命令多,如果你想得到X，你就要去做;,如果你想要和平，这就是方法。

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There's no such company, so I can be completely hypothetical.

这是个虚构的公司,所以我可以随意作假设

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There are two points that we talked about -the hypothetical points that came out of the small group discussions that I suggested we might think about at the beginning of this talk.

我们已经讨论了两点,其中假设性的一点,在课程刚开始时,我提出划分小组进行讨论时,就已经讲到了

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