underlying rules

基本解釋

Systemising is the drive to analyse and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system;
而使事物系統(tǒng)化是另外一種本能，使人們愿意分析和探索系統(tǒng)結(jié)構(gòu)并推導(dǎo)出支配系統(tǒng)功能的基本規(guī)則；
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In general linguistics has for goal to uncover and formulate the hidden underlying rules and laws that govern language and its use in the life of humans.
語言學(xué)家的任務(wù)是揭示語言背后的結(jié)構(gòu)規(guī)律，以及分析人類使用語言的習(xí)慣。
If researchers can run experiments on an ecosystem, measuring exactly what goes in and out, tweaking different aspects and seeing what happens, then they can better decipher its underlying rules.
如果研究人員能在一個生態(tài)系統(tǒng)中做實(shí)驗(yàn)，并能準(zhǔn)確地測量進(jìn)出的一切，調(diào)整不同的方面，觀察發(fā)生的現(xiàn)象，他們就能更好地破譯其基本原則。

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