Now this is interesting, Hacking says, because it shows that sampling theory was part of Nala's theory.

哈金说,这很有趣,抽样理论是那勒所学知识的一部分

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Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.

伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源,他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献,发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前

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When do they just pull out their swords and start hacking?

什么情况下战士们会拔出剑来砍杀呢

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Hacking points out that the word probability--or probable-- was already in the English language.

哈金指出概率这个词,或者说可能,已经存在于英语中

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Hacking believes that there were many gambling theorists who invented probability theory at various times in history but never wrote it down and kept it as a secret.

哈金相信历史上有很多赌博理论家,曾多次构想了概率论,但从来没有记录下来,并且恐为人知

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But Ian Hacking, being a good historian, thought that someone must have had some concept of probability going before even if they didn't quote it as a number the way-- it must have been in their head or in their idea.

但是这位优秀的历史学家伊恩·哈金认为,一定有人在更早时候就用过概率这个概念,即便他们没有用数字来表述,但他们一定有过类似的想法

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