查询词典 certainty

These are things you can test and prove to be true with certainty.

这些事可以被实验但是确定正确的。

When Henry decides to behead a young woman , it's so obviously a bad thing to do that it's satisfying to the reader," Gregory says."To judge it gives us comfort and certainty in an uncertain world.

当亨利决定砍了他第五个妻子的头时，要判断出他的对错是一件很容易的事情，"葛里高利说："在这个一切都不确定的现在，这种简单的判断给人们带来舒服的踏实感觉。

Rather than belabor the obvious, for when DOD develops a weapon it can be said with certainty that it will be tested and, if possible, where it would be useful to meet their goals; another example will put motives and, at least, one type of application in more realistic perspective.

很明显，当国防部开发了一种新的武器，可以肯定的说，它需要试验，如果可能的话，那将是对满足他们的目的有用，另一个例子将被推动，并嘴中，一种更现实的应用将可以展望。

Sue Bonney, head of tax for KPMG in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said:'Business is sending a message to policymakers that they are prepared to trade choice for certainty, provided this does not result in higher tax rates and more compliance costs.

负责毕马威会计师事务所在欧洲、中东以及非洲税收业务的主管 Sue Bonney 说："企业界正在向政策制定者传递着一个信息，即他们已对该草案的实施做好了应对之策，使得该草案的实施不会导致更高的公司税率和更多的税收执行成本。"

As a result of the tension between these two tendencies, the book reviewer has to balance a reassuringly authoritative display of his opinion/attitude with a concernto be accepted by the reader as true or accurate and to show appropriate consideration for the reader on an interpersonal level. All these constitute the complexity of interpersonal meaning of EABR.With various modal expressions, such as modal auxiliaries, modal adjuncts, metaphors of modality, the reviewer tries to mitigate his opinion to claim different degrees of certainty so as to make his writing convincing as well as revealing; He addresses readers as "you" to exclude them from his group and make himself prominent.

书评作者通过各种情态表达(情态动词、情态附加成分、人际语法隐喻等)造成不同程度的确定与不确定，从而使书评既有可信度又体现了对书作者和书评读者的尊重；当书评作者称呼读者为"you"时，他／她突显自己的权威地位，对读者施加影响，给读者一种文章为他而写的错觉，书评作者或者使用'we'在篇章世界中形成把读者向里拉的拉力，使之卷入到书评的语篇情景之中，积极主动地参与到话语活动中来，从而更容易接受书评作者的观点；书评作者直接引用所评之书的内容，从而使书评语言有力，说服性强。

Finding the Higgs boson is as near a racing certainty as exists in science.

寻找希格斯玻色子在科学方面的应该是稳操胜算。

For these institutions enable the individual to bring into operation the coercive forces of the law so that those legal arrangements he has chosen shall be carried into effect and (2) to plan the rest of his life with certainty or at least the confidence (in a legal system that is working normally) that the arrangements he has made will in fact be carried out .

因为这些制度使个人能：（1）实施法律的强制力，因此，他已选择的那些法律安排将会得以实现，以及（2）基于对（在正常运行的一种法律制度中）他已做的安排会实际地执行的肯定或至少是自信，而计划他的余生。

Can say or state with certainty, in the product coessential change mix badly the brand is bristly today, the market in the future competes, these will act more and more important role.

可以断言，在产品同质化严重和品牌林立的今天，将来的市场竞争，这些将扮演越来越重要的角色。

Some of the great dystopias of the past – I think of John Brunner's novels from the early 1970s– centered on what was then the alleged nightmare of overpopulation; but that was a modernist nightmare, and what we confront today is perhaps not a dystopia either, but rather a certainty lived in a rather different way and with a properly postmodern ambivalence; which at any rate distinctly forecloses the possibility of progress or of solutions.

一些过去的伟大的反乌托邦作品——我想到20世纪70年代约翰·布鲁纳的小说——曾集中描写当时公认的人口过剩的梦魇；但那是现代主义的梦魇，而我们今天所面对的也许不是反乌托邦的，而是以一种相当不同的方式实际经历的东西，带有真正的后现代的模糊性；它俨然排除了进步或解决的可能。

Your bleak certainty that there can be no art in a democracy is unsupported by truth. Which points to a wonderful paradox: the very fact that we now revere Tocqueville to the point of writing novels about him is proof that one of his guiding ideas about the evils of democracy was bunkum, if magnificent bunkum.

这段对白引出了一个非常巧妙的矛盾：我们尊敬托克维尔，并为此写了一部有关他的小说，可这一切都证实他有关民主罪恶的指导思想是胡扯，尽管是极华丽的胡扯。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。