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原因
Reason
In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
在一个故事中,你必须找到一个理由,但现实生活中即使没有弗洛伊德式的动机,也能过得很好。
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
世界上最富有的国家没有理由不能为所有人提供医疗保健。
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
我喜欢与农民为伍,因为他们没有受过足够的教育,不会错误地推理。
As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be--Maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.
至于去一个你不应该去的地方——也许你来这里是有原因的,或者没有原因。
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
伟大艺术的骆驼没有任何逻辑上的理由可以通过群氓智慧的指针。
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
它是一个神话,而不是命令;它是一个寓言,而不是逻辑;
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
所有伟人都有直觉的天赋。他们不需要推理或分析就知道他们需要知道什么。
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
我想成功的主要原因是走出贫民区。我的父母帮助我指明了道路。
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
如果你把理性和逻辑应用到我的职业生涯中,你不会走得太远。你根本不会。
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
没有理由改变你是谁,但如果你不是你,那么你需要承认这一点。
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
当你说“请给我一个理由”的那一刻,你就是不可能和喜怒无常的。
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
我们的偏见就是我们的情妇;理性充其量是我们的妻子,确实经常听到,但很少在意。
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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想,而是随着时间的推移,由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
难道这就是发生在人类身上的事情——一种心甘情愿的任性行为,无视人类的一切价值,而这些价值在一百多万年的时间里是如此难以赢得,而且是按照理性来构建的吗?
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
不要怕争辩的人,要怕逃避的人。
It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.
这也是我几乎没有把我的诊断公之于众的部分原因——我很尴尬。我觉得,‘哦,我一直在谈论锻炼。我得了癌症。“然后我意识到这是一个很好的例子,表明癌症可以在任何时候袭击任何人。
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
他们的不是回答,他们的不是推理,他们的是行动和死亡。
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
美德是一种心智的习惯,与自然、节制和理性相一致。