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Extent
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
我想，我之所以能在心理上保持平衡，是因为我是一个农村孩子，在那些与世隔绝的农村长大。
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
我的命运无法掌控;它只能与之合作，从而在某种程度上得到指导。我也不是自己灵魂的主宰;我只是它最吵闹的乘客。
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
我不认为自己能预测事情。我表达的可能性。可能发生的事情。在很大程度上，这是一个人们多么希望他们这样做的问题。
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
年龄越大，各层在很大程度上越均匀;这些层越新，它们受到的限制就越多，在很小的距离内就会发生变化。
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
纪念碑和考古文物证明了人类的伟大，并建立了文明之间的对话，显示了人类之间的联系。
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
我不知道编辑们会怎么看，也不知道他们会怎么接受。但在某种程度上，我希望下一本书，当人们拿起来读的时候，能把他们吓得魂飞魄散。
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
简而言之，没有模式是孤立的实体。每种模式只能在其他模式支持的范围内存在:嵌入它的较大模式、与它相同大小的模式以及嵌入其中的较小模式。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
幸福的生活在很大程度上必须是平静的生活，因为只有在平静的气氛中，真正的快乐才敢生活。
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
如果你知道你有多富有，你就不富有。至于我，我不知道我的财富有多少。这就是我们有多富有。
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
一个人只要是理性的，就有自由的选择。
We pardon to the extent that we love.
我们爱到什么程度就原谅什么程度。
I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
我坚信只要你愿意为之努力，你就能拥有你想要的身体。
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
问题的结构，因此，在某种程度上预先决定答案。