We want to make sure that if the students would not to be given the time out to learn, we need to provide a vehicle or that they can take the advantage of learning in their world context to actually put the theory into practice.

为了确认学生是否会,腾出时间学习，我们需要提供一个工具,让他们在生活的情境中,利用学习,将理论用于实践。

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The trouble with the etymology of theory and the way in which the word has been used traditionally is that sometimes it actually means practice, and then at other historical periods it means something very different from practice, something typically from which practice is derived.

理论这个词在词源,和传统的使用方法上的复杂之处在于,它有时候指的是实践，但在特定的历史时期,它指的是和实践非常不同的东西，也就是实践产生的依据。

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