A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
基本
Fundamental
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
当然，相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文，以至于很快大家都知道了，却没有人引用它呢?
The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
制造链式反应机的基本要点当然是确保每个裂变产生一定数量的中子，其中一些中子会再次产生裂变。
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
在这方面，教会支持和赞成今天为寻求充分发展所有人的个性、促进他们的基本权利、尊严和自由所作的一切努力。
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
只要我用收缩呼吸而不是用力，我就会感觉好一些。这个想法很重要——感受痛苦而不是抗拒;朝着目标前进。这是一种令人难以置信的精神实践。
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
一切都必须在历史的大框架内重新获得和重新定位，这样，尽管困难重重，存在着根本的矛盾和矛盾，我们仍然可以尊重历史的统一性，也就是生命的统一性。
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
人们的生活已经发生了根本性的改变，后来，当他们对什么是真正可以实现的目标有了更全面的理解之后，很多人都面临着许多痛苦和挫折。然而，没有抱怨的文化。
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
基本思想不是经验的结果，而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果，这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源，尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
只有理性才能使我们相信这三个基本真理，而不承认这三个真理，就不可能有真正的自由:我们相信的不一定是真理;我们喜欢的不一定是好的;所有的问题都是开放的。
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
只有一个人的基本思想中才有真理和生命。因为这是他真正完全理解的。读别人的思想，就像吃别人吃剩的饭，就像穿陌生人丢弃的衣服。
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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
但当我十二岁的时候，我第一次强烈地看到了存在的基本力量之一，它是我注定要终生追随的——那就是美。
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
社会科学的基本概念是权力，就像物理学的基本概念是能量一样。
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
银行的根本问题一直是:它们从事的是银行业，而银行业，无论是普通的还是极其复杂的，本质上都是有风险的。
That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.
这是作家们喜欢坚持的幻想的根本缺陷，他们认为我们可以创造出任何接近真相的东西。
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
根本问题是道德问题。
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
当和平不是以基本的体面为代价买来的时候，我珍视它。