来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代社会理论基础 第11集 第11集》

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  You can't do virtually nothing about an earthquake.
  面对地震你几乎无能为力
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  If we can't predict what we can't predict,
  如果我们不能对那些未知的事物做出预料
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  we can just get into our car and get out of it. Right?
  我们只能开着车去避开它
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  But even we cannot really predict earthquakes.
  然而 即使我们不能预报地震
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  That's one of the problems. Right?
  那只是其中一个问题
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  Well now we can predict when a hurricane is coming.
  即使如今我们已能够预报飓风何时到来
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  What can we do?
  我们还是我能为力
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  You get in the car and get out of there,
  你只能在飓风来临时
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  where the hurricane will come.
  开着车逃离那个地方
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  Now, you know, the point is that positivism
  实证主义的核心在于
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  does posits social phenomena as if they had the force of nature.
  它假定社会现象拥有自然力量
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  And that's what Lukács called we create the social world
  那就是卢卡奇所说的我们创造社会世界