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For one to definitively distinguish between SK and SO, he shall ineluctably face one point, a point that has perplexed a group of our forebears, especially those who had once immersed themselves in the deep thinking of the essence of this world, that what exactly SK is and what exactly SO is.

一个人若想确定性地区分&科学知识&和&迷信对象&，那么他将不可避免地遇到一个曾经困扰过许多先贤，特别是那些曾经对世界的本质有过深度思考的先贤的问题---到底什么是科学知识，什么是迷信对象？

Them, as it had their Puritan forebears during the reigns of the Jacobean

治的权利，情形正如他们的清教徒祖先

The flaunting of open immorality convinced them, as it had their Puritan forebears during the reigns of the Jacobean kings, that the English had lost the right to rule.

当他们看到这种公然的不道德行为竟然成为一种夸耀之後，他们相信英国人已经失去统治的权利，情形正如他们的清教徒祖先们在詹姆士王朝时所见所为。

A.S.Byatt 在小说 Possesion 中这样说: A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love, indifference and dislike; also of his race and his nation, the soil that fed him and his forebears, the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience, of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old woman, of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law, of all this and something else too, a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself, and yet is lit and put out from moment to the next, and never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come.

男人是一部历史，这是一部蕴含着他的呼吸、思想、行为、琐碎、创伤、爱情、冷淡和厌倦的历史；也是一部包含着他的种族、国家、祖先、喂养他的土地、熟悉的沙石、长期沉默的斗争和内心意识挣扎的历史；还是一部蕴藏着姑娘的微笑、老妪的低语、众多的事故、缓慢的行动和必然的法则以及所有其他事件的历史。无论从什么方面来看，一支火焰总是要遵守从属于火光本身的法则，而这支火焰也每时每刻被它点燃和扑灭；在即将到来的整个虚度中，火焰从来没有被重新点亮。

The soldiers note, for example, that the Taliban use the same ambush sites as their anti-Soviet forebears did—and, no doubt, as did those 19th-century Pushtun tribesmen who resisted British imperialists.

比如，北约士兵发现，塔利班当年在哪伏击苏军，现在还在哪伏击他们；他们还发现，19世纪的普什图人也在同一地点抗击英帝国主义者。

According to the customs, descents should get together, offer some foods and fruits in front of the tombs of the elder generations, incinerate some joss paper, cover a layer of fresh earth with several verdant branches and then kowtow so as to send the deep respect to the forebears.

按照旧的清明习俗，在扫墓时，人们要携带酒食果品、纸钱等物品到墓地，将食物供祭在亲人坟前，再将纸钱焚化，为坟墓培上新土，折几枝嫩的新枝插在枝上，然后叩头行礼祭拜，也许还会与先辈闲聊几句，话话家常，让先辈不必挂念在世的亲人。

Nonetheless, the firm says it has reduced carbon-dioxide emissions from its British operations by 9%, despite opening 103 new stores. It has bought a fleet of 140 tear-shaped trailers, which use 10% less fuel and provide 16% more space than their less aerodynamic forebears.

尽管如此，该公司还是宣布在新增103家商店的同时，计算在英国公司项下二氧化碳的总体排放量降低了9%。140辆水滴形拖车也投入使用，油耗降低了10%的同时节省了16%的空间。

It's almost too easy: Simply by taking your attention off thoughts of scarcity and persistently focusing on observations of abundance, you can replace the nervous, just-in-case mind-set that kept our ancient forebears alive but is killing many of us.

这简直太简单了：只要转移你的&稀少&思维，坚持把注意力放在观察丰足上面，那么你就能将那个紧张、'以防万一'、维持我们祖先们生存可正让我们许多人丧命的心态替换掉。

Analyzing the craftsmanship of jade carving we can say not only bronze and red brass metallurgy was mastered by our forebears but also mood-framed equipments and special tools were created. They also built jade producing workshops.

我们已经从红山文化玉器的制作工艺客观分析出，这一时期已经掌握了冶炼技术，有红铜或青铜器问世，并制作了以木为框架结构的，专门用于玉器加工的设备和工具，已形成手工业作坊生产模式。

Dawson's Creek, Gen Y-ers don't carry the stigmatizing label of slackers that their Gen X forebears do. The

和 中的嘲讽式怀疑主义和假冒主智主义点燃，Y代人再也受不了敷衍取巧者的诬蔑

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失