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事实
Fact
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
事实本身并不重要。它的价值只在于它所附带的思想，或它所提供的证明。
The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
我喜欢塑造角色并不意味着我喜欢看我的角色被塑造，我的表演。
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
经验只有在自我重复时才变得有趣。事实上，直到它做到这一点，它才算得上是经验。
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
我们不能靠写漫画来谋生，尽管这是一种非常有趣的谋生方式。
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
还有比事实更重要的东西:内在的精神，它所代表的一切，情绪，浩瀚，野性。
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
事实上，我喜欢炫耀，成为人们关注的焦点，这使我很擅长花样滑冰。
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
我一直对冒险游戏的情感方面很感兴趣——人们会如此亲自参与其中。
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?
I admit, i really miss how things used to be. But i can also admit, that i've accepted the fact that things have changed.
我承认，我真的很怀念过去的日子。但我也可以承认，我已经接受了事情已经改变的事实。
Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.
现在男人和女人是分开和不平等的。我们应该携手并进;事实上，我们应该互相拥抱。
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
事实上，我们会发现，有独创性的人总是富于幻想的，而真正有想象力的人总是善于分析。
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
我开始接受这样一个事实:爱一个人需要信心的飞跃，而软着陆从来就没有得到保证。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
你必须面对这样一个事实:你的生活就是你的生活。
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And beatles are the biggest bastard on earth.
你必须是个混蛋才能成功，这是事实。披头士是世界上最大的混蛋。
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
这种促进和平的方式的局限性在于它是对人类文明一面的呼吁，而战争则是人类原始野蛮本性的力量的产物。
The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
事实会证明一切。信不信由你，读吧!
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
妇女现在在我国制造业和商业中占雇员的五分之一左右，这一事实本身就开辟了一个广泛的工业立法领域，直接影响到作为工薪阶层的妇女。
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
由于没有事实作为参照，规范性纯粹是偏好的问题。