A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
调查
Investigation
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
我们通过了重要的法律，赋予负责调查的当局广泛的权力来保护我们。
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
如果你的信仰与经验相悖，与人类的学习和探索相悖，那么它就不值得你用呼吸来表达它。
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
周一降临在黑岩上的云不是过去的，而是未来的。这场溃败将在多大程度上阻碍其它高风险调查的进行?
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
任何国家的知识状况将对其所采用的一般教学制度产生直接影响，这是一项显而易见的原则，不需要进行调查。
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
似乎是最纯粹抽象的调查往往构成了人类生活条件中最重要的变化或改善的基础。
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
多年来，许多其他有趣的实验想法和研究领域一直是我关注的对象，我花了一些时间和精力来探索固有的可能性。
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
在发现秘密的事物和研究隐藏的原因时，从可靠的实验和论证中得到的理由比从一般哲学投机者的推测和意见中得到的理由更充分。