Many policy failures might have been avoided if theoretical insights had been properly applied.

要是理论洞见得以正确地应用，许多政策失败本来是可以避免的。

There's a lot of theories exactly how they came to be.

有很多理论明确地解释了它们是如何到达那里的。

" Color(ed) Theory" made unmistakably visible the uncomfortable questions that institutions and governments have to ask themselves about why they do what they do.

" 涂色理论" 清楚地表明了机构和政府必须问自己为什么要做令人不快的事情。

Sure enough, different parts of the present moon's crust, recovered by various missions to the lunar surface, differ in age by up to 200m years, a fact that has long puzzled selenologists but which the impact theory neatly explains.

也意味着个月球的岩石要年久的多。果真如此，在月球外壳的不同部分，各次去月球表面的探测任务，些岩石年代的不同达到2亿年之久。一个长期困扰月球学家的客观事实被撞理论巧妙地解释了。

Technology and invention, not just psychology or economic theories, have continuously made our use of money faster, more convenient, and more trustworthy— even if it is all completely made up.

术和明，而不仅仅是心理学或经济理论，不断地让我们金钱的使用变得更快、更方便、更值得信赖 —— 即使一切都是虚构的。

One study published in 1992 found plenty of support for the self-justification idea, but also suggested that other theories might better explain sunk-cost behavior in specific cases.

1992 年表的一项研，自我证明的观点得到了充分的支持，但也表明其他理论可能更好地解释特定情况下的沉没成本行为。

So Engels and Adobe used color theory throughout the space to think more scientifically about how hues and brightness levels inspire work.

因此，恩格斯和奥多比在整个空间中使用颜色理论来更学地思考颜色和亮度如何能激励人们工作。

Okay, so you're increasing the surface area so that you get butter curls that will in theory melt quicker onto bread.

好了，你增加了表面积，样你就能把黄油卷着刮下来，理论上会更快地融化在面包上。

Its profitability spurred on laissez-faire economic theory which minimises government intervention in markets.

它的盈利能力受到自由放任经济理论的刺激，该理论最大限度地减少了政府对市场的干预。

Now, this theory works well to explain Pluto's subsurface ocean.

在，个理论很好地解释了冥王星的地下海洋。

And it's very much based in doing it versus intellectualizing, how to speak better.

主要在于实践，而非理论化地学习如何更好地表达。

Both theories are strikingly counter-intuitive which makes them good fodder for popular science books.

两种理论都令人意外地违背直觉，使得它们成为普书籍的好素材。

Whatever its geopolitical merits, the madman theory transfers badly to economics.

无论其地缘政治优点是什么，疯子理论都糟糕地转移到了经济学。

Friedman's theory seemed to fit the evidence well.

弗里德曼的理论似乎很好地契合了实际情况。

And sociological theory showed this very vividly.

社会学理论非常生动地展示了一点。

But I now read these discussions as an honest intellectual effort to keep separate what the classical theory has inextricably confused together, namely, the rate of interest and the marginal efficiency of capital.

但我在将些讨论解读为一种诚实的智力努力，目的是将经典理论不可避免地混淆在一起的东西分开，即利率和资本的边际效率。

And I love that you're familiar with it because part of my mission with this book is to really bring it out maybe into the mainstream a little bit more.

我非常高兴你对它有所了解，因为本书的一部分使命正是希望将一理论更广泛地引入主流视野。

Interestingly, Darwin's theory about what this could have been is remarkably similar to the current theory, that the first life came from some form of body of water.

有趣的是， 达尔文关于可能是怎么回事的理论与当前的理论惊人地相似，即最初的生命来自某种形式的水域。

One woman said that getting to know him was " like running against a pitchfork." Cope, on the other hand, was charismatic and given to bold theorizing.

一位女士说，认识他“就像在干草叉上奔跑”。 另一方面，柯普很有魅力，喜欢大胆地提出理论。

Nevertheless, the Alpha-Gamow theory correctly explained the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium, lending considerable support to the theory that the universe began with a Big Bang.

然而， 阿尔法-伽莫夫理论正确地解释了氢和氦的相对丰度，为宇宙始于大爆炸的理论提供了有力支持。