六级Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

这个理论的有趣之处在于，如果你只有三分之一或三分之二，你会得到什么？你有什么？如果三分之二不同，又有什么不同？这种理论的有趣之处在于，它产生了许多不同的组合，当你将它们分解并开始仔细观察时，它们会非常有趣。

2016年12月听力原文

六级That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

这是因为对一个能够解释所有自然力的统一理论的追求已经将当前的数学推向了极限。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that 30-second spots do not.

从理论上讲，互动广告可以吸引观众的注意力，而30秒的广告则不然。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这一比例可以大大降低。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研In the internet age, at least in theory, this fraction can be much reduced.

在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这一比例可以大大降低。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考In any case, despite so much evidence to the contrary, many managers still agree to theory X.

无论如何，尽管有这么多相反的证据，许多经理仍然同意X理论。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

四级These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

这些发现与你对进化论的期望是一致的：那些喜欢交朋友和帮助别人的人可以收集足够的资源来度过艰难时期。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.

所以，如果你拥有这三样东西，亲密、激情和承诺，在斯滕伯格的理论中，你就拥有了爱。

2016年12月听力原文

考研In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything-a single generative equation for all we see.

在物理学中，有一种方法将这种统一的冲动发挥到极致，并寻求一种万物理论——一种我们所看到的一切的单一生成方程。

2012年考研翻译原文

考研But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

但在20世纪初，一些人类学家也拒绝了文化的特殊主义理论，转而支持扩散主义。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Also in the early 1900s, French sociologist Emile Durkheim developed a theory of culture that would greatly influence anthropology.

同样在20世纪初，法国社会学家艾米尔·迪尔凯姆（Emile Durkheim）提出了一种文化理论，该理论将对人类学产生重大影响。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

这一理论似乎也解释了人们在其他人注意之前穿着、推销或开发任何东西的突然和出乎意料的流行。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of certain looks, brands, or neighborhoods.

这一理论似乎也解释了某些外观、品牌或社区突然而出人意料的流行。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Coinciding with the groundbreaking theory of biological evolution proposed by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1860s, British social philosopher Herbert Spencer put forward his own theory of biological and cultural evolution.

与19世纪60年代英国博物学家查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）提出的开创性生物进化理论相一致，英国社会哲学家赫伯特·斯宾塞（Herbert Spencer）提出了自己的生物和文化进化理论。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

然而，根据两步流理论，正是这些非名人影响者通过直接影响他们的朋友和同事来推动社会流行病。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

所谓影响力的重要性来自一个听起来似乎合理但基本上未经验证的理论，称为“两步传播流”：信息从媒体流向影响力，从影响力流向其他人。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.

美国社会科学家刘易斯·亨利·摩根在19世纪末提出了另一种文化进化理论。

2009年考研阅读原文

六级The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

该理论认为，吸烟应该被剥夺任何阻止新一代从一开始就开始吸烟的吸引力。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

在科学和宗教思想高度紧张的时期提出这样一个理论被打上了异端的烙印，任何继续传播这些谎言的异端都将被处以监禁甚至死刑。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Theory X is the idea that people instinctively dislike work and will do anything to avoid it.

X理论认为人们本能地不喜欢工作，并且会尽一切努力避免工作。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

四级It enables him to apply theory to practice.

这使他能够将理论应用于实践。

2010年6月听力原文

高考In theory, they should live by the French law is often ignored or unknown, thus making them into an interesting area of "lawlessness" in the world.

从理论上讲，他们应该遵守的法国法律往往被忽视或不为人所知，从而使他们成为世界上一个有趣的“无法无天”领域。

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级And he has a theory of love that argues that it’s made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

他有一个爱的理论，认为它由三个部分组成：亲密、激情和承诺，或者有时被称为决定承诺。

2016年12月听力原文

高考Hollywood's theory that machines with evil minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly.

好莱坞关于拥有邪恶思维的机器将驱动杀手机器人大军的理论是愚蠢的。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考In the 1960s, Douglas Mcgregor, one of the key thinkers in the art of management, developed the mow famous theory X and theory Y.

20世纪60年代，管理艺术的关键思想家之一道格拉斯·麦格雷戈（Douglas Mcgregor）提出了著名的X理论和Y理论。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

四级Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

医生们用胡萝卜籽和胡萝卜根作为药物，他们的理论是味道不好的食物一定对你有好处。

2017年6月听力原文

考研This theory was known as diffusionism.

这个理论被称为扩散论。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Supporters of the theory viewed culture as a collection of integrated parts that work together to keep a society functioning.

该理论的支持者认为，文化是一个整体的组成部分的集合，这些组成部分共同工作，以维持一个社会的运转。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

20世纪初，在北美，出生于德国的美国人类学家弗兰兹·博阿斯（Franz Boas）提出了一种新的文化理论，称为历史特殊主义。

2009年考研阅读原文

四级While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

虽然消费者在卫生纸上的支出减少了，但他们在纸张质量方面仍然很挑剔——至少在理论上是这样。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

Sternberg理论中爱情的第三个要素是他所说的决定承诺，即一个人处于恋爱关系中的决定，愿意给它贴上这样的标签，以及至少在一段时间内维持这种关系的承诺。

2016年12月听力原文

六级I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.

我花了大部分时间研究大爆炸理论和我们的宇宙从何而来。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级I'm watching a comedy called The Big Bang Theory.

我正在看一部叫《生活大爆炸》的喜剧。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级Well, that's a good question, because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such— there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development

好吧，这是一个好问题，因为混沌理论的基本思想是，没有任何“模型”本身——没有保证的形式，而是发展中的变化模式

2013年6月听力原文

考研It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.

然而，考虑到这一理论可能包含的维度和宇宙，它是否会是一种简化变得越来越不明确，尽管如此，各种形式的统一仍然是一个主要目标。

2012年考研翻译原文

高考We hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction.

我们听到了关于儿童发展的科学，当他们开始发展的时候，我们听到了关于性吸引的理论。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

高考Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.

越来越多的人支持这样一种理论，即睡眠的进化使得大脑神经元之间的联系可以在一夜之间被削弱，从而为第二天形成新的记忆腾出空间。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

如果托诺尼的理论是正确的，它将解释为什么当我们错过一个晚上的时候，第二天我们会发现更难集中精力学习新的信息——我们的大脑可能有更小的空间来进行新的体验。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级Kathy, chaos theory seems to be a branch of physics or mathematics.

凯西，混沌理论似乎是物理学或数学的一个分支。

2013年6月听力原文

四级Later, I developed a broader theory of what separates the two general classes of learners—helpless versus mastery-oriented.

后来，我发展了一个更广泛的理论，将学习者分为无助型和掌握型两类。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Chaos theory was developed by scientists, trying to explain the movement of the planets and the changes in environmental conditions

混沌理论是由科学家发展起来的，试图解释行星的运动和环境条件的变化

2013年6月听力原文

六级In the 1990s, many economists began to look at chaos theory as a way of providing models for forecasting.

20世纪90年代，许多经济学家开始将混沌理论视为提供预测模型的一种方法。

2013年6月听力原文

六级What was chaos theory supposed to do when it was first formulated?

混沌理论最初形成时应该做什么？

2013年6月听力原文

六级Chaos theory and its applications

混沌理论及其应用

2013年6月听力原文

考研According to one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted in physical reactions.

根据一个经典的情感理论，我们的情感部分植根于生理反应。

2011年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible-sounding but largely untested theory called the"two-step flow of communication": Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

所谓影响者的重要性来自一种听起来似乎合理但基本上未经验证的理论，称为“两步传播流”：信息从媒体流向影响者，并从影响者流向其他人。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity.

阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在1905年预言了这一点，当时他在狭义相对论中引入了相对时间的概念。

2011年6月听力原文

六级"In theory," says Vallentine, "this can create a high enough temperature to generate super-heated steam.

“理论上，”Vallentine说，“这可以产生足够高的温度来产生过热蒸汽。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级However, this is a contentious theory and such claims have been treated skeptically by some scholars based on their reading of the relevant data.

然而，这是一个有争议的理论，一些学者在阅读相关数据的基础上对这种说法持怀疑态度。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研In theory, the success of an applicant should not depend on the few others chosen randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was otherwise.

从理论上讲，申请人的成功不应该取决于当天随机挑选的几个面试者，但西蒙森博士怀疑事实并非如此。

2013年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级And he has a theory of love that argues that it's made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

他有一个爱的理论，认为它由三个部分组成：亲密、激情和承诺，或者有时被称为决定承诺。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级The third element of love in Sternberg's theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

Sternberg理论中爱情的第三个要素是他所说的决定承诺，即一个人处于恋爱关系中的决定，愿意给它贴上这样的标签，以及至少在一段时间内维持这种关系的承诺。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Because of her "improvement" theory, I got a lower grade than I deserve.

因为她的“进步”理论，我的分数比我应得的低。

2010年6月阅读原文

考研Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who, according to the two-step-flow theory, are supposed to drive social epidemics, by influencing their friends and colleagues directly.

然而，根据两步流理论，正是这些非名人影响者通过直接影响他们的朋友和同事来推动社会流行病。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines a cherished theory that they had put forward.

你可以从教师身上看到，当学生的发现破坏了他们所提出的宝贵理论时，他们会很高兴。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考Theory y is the view that everyone has the potential to find satisfaction in work.

y理论认为每个人都有潜力在工作中找到满足感。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

六级That’s because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

这是因为对一个能够解释所有自然力的统一理论的追求已经将当前的数学推向了极限。

2010年12月英语六级真题

四级According to the evolutionary (进化的) theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason.

根据进化论(进化的) 睡眠理论，进化为我们提供了一种规律的睡眠和清醒模式，原因也是一样的。

1994年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The theory does not deny (否认) that sleep provides some important restorative functions.

该理论并不否认(否认) 睡眠提供了一些重要的恢复功能。

1994年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The evolutionary theory accounts well for differences in sleep among creatures.

进化论很好地解释了生物之间睡眠的差异。

1994年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Many experts are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting, the theory to work in their own lives.

许多专家都非常相信挑战大脑的好处，他们正在将这一理论应用到自己的生活中。

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.

毕竟，我不学社会学或政治理论。

2007年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The prevailing theory seems to be that we’re all hot-tempered single mothers who can’t keep a man.

流行的理论似乎是，我们都是脾气暴躁的单身母亲，无法留住一个男人。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级These survey indicates that education degree does have a relationship with earnings, contrary to the recent theory of useless education.

这些调查表明，教育程度确实与收入有关，这与最近的无用教育理论相反。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy―in theory at least—when it comes to paper quality.

虽然消费者在卫生纸上的支出减少了，但他们在纸张质量方面仍然很挑剔——至少在理论上是这样。

2017年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研Actually, Einstein’s theory of relativity and his other scientific works are not that hard to understand with a little study.

事实上，爱因斯坦的相对论和他的其他科学著作并不难理解。

1980年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory.

我们的环境与我们的能力、特征和行为几乎没有关系，这是这一理论的核心。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behavior is pre-determined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts.

在极端情况下，这一理论认为，我们的行为在很大程度上是预先决定的，以至于我们几乎完全受本能的支配。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Those who support the “nurture” theory, that is, they advocate education, are often called behaviorists.

那些支持“养育”理论的人，也就是他们提倡教育的人，通常被称为行为主义者。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Supporters of the “nature” theory insist that we are born with a certain capacity for learning that is biologically determined.

“自然”理论的支持者坚持认为，我们天生就有一定的学习能力，这是生物学决定的。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研This fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth.

这符合二氧化碳使地球变暖的理论。

1992年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The basic patent for the theory of magnetic recording dates back to 1886.

磁记录理论的基本专利可以追溯到1886年。

1993年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

非专家将至少能够获得支持进化理论的各种数据和论据的概念。

1996年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- Cobe -- had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosion that has become known as the Big Bang (the theory that the universe originated in an explosion from a single mass of energy).

研究人员的发现既令人惊讶又令人期待：美国国家航空航天局的宇宙背景探测卫星Cobe发现了具有里程碑意义的证据，证明宇宙实际上始于被称为大爆炸的原始爆炸（宇宙起源于单一质量能量的爆炸的理论）。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研According to the theory, the universe burst into being as a submicroscopic, unimaginably dense knot of pure energy that flew outward in all directions, emitting radiation as it went, condensing into particles and then into atoms of gas.

根据该理论，宇宙爆发为一个亚微观的、难以想象的致密的纯能量结，向各个方向向外飞行，在飞行过程中发出辐射，凝结成粒子，然后凝结成气体原子。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.

如果这些小热点看起来像预期的那样，那将是另一个科学想法的胜利，这是对大爆炸的改进，称为膨胀宇宙理论。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be—even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right—it can hardly be classed as Literature.

然而，就未来主义诗歌而言，情况相当困难，因为无论未来主义诗是什么——即使承认它所基于的理论可能是正确的——它都很难被归类为文学。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研They are the possessions of the autonomous（self-governing）man of traditional theory, and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements.

它们是传统理论中自主（自治）人的财产，对于一个人对自己的行为负责并对自己的成就给予赞扬的实践至关重要。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研” One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research.

“其中一项事业现在试图结束生物医学研究，因为动物有权排除其在研究中的使用。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研It’s theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of determining which companies will flourish and which will fail.

这是许多经济学家赞同的理论，但在实践中，它往往让铁路公司处于决定哪些公司会繁荣，哪些公司会失败的位置。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early.

有一种理论是，在按字母顺序排列的弱势群体所享受的所有业余时间里，腐败早就开始了。

2004年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise”—the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep.

一个世纪前，弗洛伊德提出了他的革命性理论，即梦是我们无意识欲望和恐惧的伪装阴影；到了20世纪70年代末，神经学家已经转而将其视为“精神噪音”——睡眠中神经修复工作的随机副产品。

2005年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.

这很重要，因为理论表明，当目标物种的生物量约为其原始水平的50%时，渔业可以获得的最大可持续产量。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Coinciding with the groundbreaking theory of biological evolution proposed by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1860s, British social philosopher Herbert Spencer put forward his own theory of biological and cultural evolution.

与19世纪60年代英国博物学家查尔斯·达尔文提出的开创性的生物进化论相吻合，英国社会哲学家赫伯特·斯宾塞提出了自己的生物和文化进化论。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boasdeveloped a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

20世纪初，出生于德国的美国人类学家Franz Boasd在北美发展了一种新的文化理论，称为历史特殊主义。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Also in the early 1900s, French sociologist Émile Durkheimdeveloped a theory of culture that would greatly influence anthropology.

同样在20世纪初，法国社会学家埃米尔·涂尔干发展了一种文化理论，这将极大地影响人类学。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题