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本质
Essence
The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
问题的实质是，我们下一步能做什么?会好吗?
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
所有美丽的艺术，所有伟大的艺术的本质，都是感恩。
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
所有艺术的本质都是在给予快乐中获得快乐。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
生命的本质是大规模的统计非概率。
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.
爱是永恒的;外表可能改变，但本质永远不变。
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
至于精神本质，我们发现它存在于没有任何精神形态的婴儿身上。
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
对我来说，直接观察大自然的光辉本质是不可或缺的。
I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
我想知道男人和女人的本质有什么不同。
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
人类思想的一切努力都不能耗尽一只苍蝇的精华。
So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.
所以我在球场上所做的就是我的本质。像那样记住我。
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
我伴随着许多童话故事长大。他们有一种黑暗的本质。
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
每一次反抗行为都表达了对纯真的怀念和对存在本质的诉求。
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From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.
因此，从剧作家的角度来看，悲剧的本质，甚至是严肃戏剧的本质，都是主人公的精神觉醒或再生。
The crow flew over the sea but returned still a crow.
乌鸦飞过大海，但还是回来了一只乌鸦。
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
非小说类作品与头脑对话。小说能打动人心。诗歌与灵魂对话。这是美的本质。痛苦的本质。它使人赏心悦目。
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
我们做事的方式和我们想做的事情，我们觉得它必须是真正纯粹的音乐本质。这就是你能从中得到最大收获的地方。
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
本质上，弦理论描述了空间和时间，物质和能量，重力和光，实际上是上帝创造的一切……作为音乐。
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
领导的本质是你必须有远见。你不能吹响不确定的号角。