Currently,the best explanation for the loss of methane is that it chemically reacts with dust in the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Which is just to say, we need to offer a biological/physical explanation of what goes on in near-death experiences.

那也只不过是说,关于濒死体验我们需要给出,一个生物学或物理学的解释

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All right, so that's really all there is to thinking about valence bond theory in terms of the most simple explanation here.

好了，这就是,价电子轨道理论的,最简单的解释。

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For them,evolution opposed the explanation of creation found in the book of Genesis in the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

And you saw some of the beginnings of an explanation offered in the reading by Schick and Vaughn.

你们可以看到希克和沃恩在阅读材料里,对某个解释做了一个开头

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Lord Ashburton said Britain regretted that it had not made some explanation or apology for the sinking of an American boat in the Niagara River.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"

这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Victor Weisskopf's suggestion resulted in an explanation of how electrons travel through semiconductors.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

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But the first explanation of evolution in public caused little reaction.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But the explanation of what's bad for me,in his having died, is the fact that it's bad for him to have died.

但他的死亡对我来说不好的地方，却同样也是对他不好的方面。

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Here is the explanation of why those 2 things work differently in the reassembling cases.

现在我给你们讲解一下为何,这两个重组例子的结果会不同。

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Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

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Still, that doesn't mean that we should believe the argument for the existence of the soul from near-death experiences, because the question remains, "What's the best explanation of what's going on in near-death experiences?"

但是,这并不意味着,我们应该相信那些从濒死体验角度,来证明灵魂存在的论证,因为问题仍在,对于濒死体验的,最好解释是什么

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What we're justified in believing are those things that we need, not simply when they would offer us some kind of explanation, but when they offer us the best explanation that we can think of.

我们确信我们需要某些东西,不仅在于它们为我们提供了某种解释,还在于它们能使我们,想出的最佳解释

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We can still say the reason that we got the same personality in the normal case that some physical explanation of whether person, what houses the personality, but for all that, the key to personal identity is same personality.

我们还可以说清楚,在一般情况下如何得到,同样的人格，我们得弄清楚,是什么储存了人格,但是首先我们得认可,人格同一性的关键在于同样的人格。

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What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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