来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第5集 第5集》

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  you hate developmental psychology;
  讨厌发展心理学
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  you hate babies; you hate children;
  讨厌婴儿 讨厌儿童
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  they're not cute; they're ugly;
  他们不可爱 他们很丑陋
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  you don't want to have them;
  你不想有孩子
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  you don't want to study them;
  也不想去研究他们
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  you're annoyed that we have to discuss them.
  你对我们探讨儿童觉得厌烦
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  Fine. But there are reasons to study development
  没关系 但即使你对儿童不感兴趣
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  even if you are not interested in children
  却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展
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  because sometimes developmental studies
  因为发展的研究
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  and developmental data and developmental science
  数据以及科学
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  can inform questions about adults.
  有时可以解释成人的问题
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  And Stephen Jay Gould
  斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德