A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
迷信
Superstition
A good heart never went to hell.
好心肠的人不会下地狱。
Pulling the devil by the leg is a bad grip.
牵着魔鬼的腿是一种不好的握法。
Speak to the Devil and you'll hear the clatter of his hooves.
跟魔鬼说话,你就会听到他的马蹄声。
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
魔鬼把世界分为无神论和迷信。
I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
我只有一个迷信……当我打出全垒打时,要触碰到所有的垒。
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatura.
啊,对了,迷信:在超自然生物面前,这似乎是懦弱的表现。
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
我只有一个迷信。当我打出全垒打时,我一定要触到所有的垒。
A dimple in the chin, your living comes in; a dimple in the cheek, your living to seek.
一个酒窝在下巴,你的生活进来;脸颊上的酒窝,你活着去寻找。
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
在缺乏证据的情况下,迷信。这是中世纪的事情。这就是我的理论。
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
每个人都有自己的迷信。当我开始去任何地方的时候,我的一个梦想总是实现了。
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
迷信?谁能确定昨天的迷信和明天的科学事实之间的界线呢?
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
恐惧是迷信的主要来源,也是残忍的主要来源之一。征服恐惧是智慧的开始。
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
我担心,特别是随着千年的临近,伪科学和迷信似乎会一年比一年更具吸引力,非理性的警笛声会更响亮,更有吸引力。
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
这就是这个协会提出的伟大目标;达到这一目的的方法是光明,用理性的阳光照亮理智,它将驱散迷信和偏见的阴霾。
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.
我有一种迷信,认为对于自己想要发生的事情说得太多,只是为了防止它全部消失,或者有人突然出现,把我打倒在地。
The general root of superstition [is that] men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
迷信的一般根源是,人们在事情发生的时候观察,而不是在事情没有发生的时候观察,然后记住一件事,忽略另一件事。
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
人的心是偶像崇拜和迷信的仓库;甚至如果一个人相信他自己的思想,他一定会抛弃上帝,在自己的头脑中铸造一些偶像。