But I like to think back further to the ultimate cause.
但是我想探究更远的在未来的终极原因。
The school of life
We should stay sceptical before such protests — if only because, were we to solve one surface worry without drilling into its ultimate cause, we'd simply facilitate its movement elsewhere.
在面对这类拒绝承认的情况前，如果我们只解决表面的担忧，没有追根究底，只会助长强迫症的蔓延。
英语百科
Proximate and ultimate causation
（重定向自Ultimate cause）
A proximate cause is an event which is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or distal cause) which is usually thought of as the "real" reason something occurred.