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确定
Certainty
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
我们认为地球在两极之间是由一个球面所包围的，这是毫无疑问的。
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
嫉妒源于怀疑。一旦我们从怀疑过渡到确定，它就会变成疯狂或完全停止。
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
你必须用其他理论来检验你的假设。在复杂的情况下，确定性是非常危险的。
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探索。不确定性正是促使人展现其力量的条件。
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
当今世界上麻烦的根本原因是愚蠢的人自以为是，而聪明的人充满怀疑。
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
人们追求美，是为了使它受到玷污;不是为了它自己，而是为了肯定要亵渎它而带来的快乐。
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
然而，只有关于地球上的生命，人们才能有把握地说出来。在我看来，地球上所有的生命，地球上所有生命的总和，都是有目的的。
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
我从来没想过我不会成功。我对自己有绝对的信心，我想，正是这种信心帮助我度过了难关，而我的父母一直在我身后支持着我。
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
有那么一瞬间，她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定，她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
这些诗打好之前不要太苛刻。我总是认为打字稿提供了某种确定性:至少，如果事情是坏的，那么它们似乎是坏的信念。
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
反抗是一种道德上的必然，而不是诗意的。真正的诗人从不为了惩罚别人而使用词语。他的判断属于创造秩序;它不是作为一个预言性的经文。
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
教条主义和怀疑主义在某种意义上都是绝对的哲学;一个肯定知道，另一个肯定不知道。哲学应该消散的是确定性，无论是知识还是无知。
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Certainty is better than hope.
确信胜于希望。
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
有一只鸟在手是肯定的。但是灌木丛中的鸟也会唱歌。
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
没有一件伟大的事情是由寻求确定性的弱者完成的。
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问，如果我们不能相信圣经，我们能相信什么?
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
啊，当我们在这一生中急于求成的时候，多么枯燥无味的回答却能使灵魂得到满足!