They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

That's the general idea.

让我再说明一下，那是一个一般性的思路。

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It's not the idea about understanding everything, but just so you get the general idea.

不是要你弄懂所有东西，但起码你可以了解大意。

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"A science caf, it's a concept that actually started in Europe, and it was an idea to get scientists engaged in an informal conversation with the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But the general idea of Freud is actually been so successful both in the study of scientific psychology and in our interpretation of everyday life that, to some extent, freud's been a victim of his own success.

但弗洛伊德的理论,确实在科学心理学的研究,和日常生活的解释方面,获得了巨大的成功，以至于弗洛伊德多少有点，成了他自身成功的牺牲者。

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Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

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We are going to see in a moment how important that is, or in a few lectures, how important that idea is for the Deuteronomistic historian in general. But we will get there.

我们一会儿来看看这到底有多重要，或在以后几次讲座中，看看这一观点有多重要,对大多数申命记历史学家，我们将会看到。

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Now, that is not the most general thing, but I'm sure you guys have some idea of why we are interested in that.

这并不是最普遍的情形,但我确定你们知道我们为什么喜欢它

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The precision of that,of course, is not to be taken seriously, but it gives you a general idea of when we are talking about.

当然,这个时间的精确度,并没有经过严格考证,但是它使我们对这件事的时间有个大体的概念

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I'm going to put down two different definitions of best response, one of which corresponds to best response to somebody else playing a particular strategy like left and right, and the other is just going to correspond to the more general idea of a best response to a belief.

我写出最佳对策的两种不同形式定义,一个是参与人针对对手策略的定义,比如这里的左路右路,另一个强调的是,最佳对策的广义上的定义

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And, in general, the idea of what goes on in classical conditioning is that the response is sort of a preparation.

一般认为，在经典条件作用中,反应就是某种准备过程。

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