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事实
Fact
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
随着系统的进一步扩展,它变得更加连贯。我们解释一类新的事实所需要的要素已经包含在我们的系统中。在错误的理论中,情况恰恰相反。
The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
事实是它没有告诉我我们有一个更基本的问题去理解哪里出了问题,我们必须弄清楚哪里出了问题。这就是我所说的基本故障分析。
The fact is that I've always been interested in politics and public service. I enjoy it and I think it's important and I believe in it. And I've been fortunate to be here when the opportunity has presented itself.
事实上,我一直对政治和公共服务感兴趣。我喜欢它,我认为它很重要,我相信它。我很幸运能在机会出现的时候来到这里。
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
在过去…这是一个基本的,基本的事实,生产者没有意见。当我在制作自然历史节目时,我并没有把它们作为表达自己观点的工具。它们是纪实节目。
When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.
当我开始做模特的时候,我确实很胖。事实上,我很性感。我有一张真正的娃娃脸和婴儿肥。但我还是个婴儿!我被告知我必须要有更好的身材,但是我很固执,所以我没有。
Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
和拉塞尔一样,我喜欢独自演奏时,如果我想做一些完全自发的事情,我不用担心如何去提示其他的音乐家,或者这是排练过的东西。
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
另一方面,口头解释,即量子物理学的形而上学,则没有那么坚实的基础。事实上,四十多年来,物理学家们一直未能提供一个清晰的形而上学模型。
You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
你知道,我觉得做一个……事实上,很少有人知道大多数主演都有他们从未想过的背景,而且他们也确实演过这部剧。
Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.
我们的成功主要是因为我们刺激了动物的神经,这些动物很容易站起来,在刺激它们的神经期间或之前都没有受到任何痛苦的刺激。
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.
事实上,如果他们不让我上下班,我就不会接受这个角色,因为我想和同学们一起高中毕业。我记得当我告诉我的经纪人,如果我不能通勤,我不想要这个角色时,他目瞪口呆。
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
另一个重要的事实是:在大卫的时代,单身家庭的家庭宴请和牺牲一定还很普遍,但随着社交圈的扩大和生活的公开化,这种家庭宴请和牺牲逐渐减少,失去了其重要性。
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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 fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
在我们每个人的生命中,死亡都是一个确定的事实。下个星期,将会像上星期一样,充满痛苦、悲伤和悲伤。
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
我一直相信到处都有有趣的人,但他们不是喜剧演员。事实上,我的一些最好的喜剧灵感并不是来自专业的艺人。
It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.
这就是生活的事实。每个人都在成长,都在经历变化,我们的观众看到了这一切。
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
给人们一个新词,他们就会认为自己掌握了一个新的事实。