笃信宗教

The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.

577跟原来笃信同一宗教、又属于同一国度的那些极端抽象而又无比具体、重商主义的人们举行周会后，禁止在会餐的席间同时食用兽肉和奶；为男婴行割礼；犹太经典的超自然特性；应当避讳的四个神圣的字母；安息日的神圣。

Religion, by contrast, is based on truths that are not provable through ordinary human understanding—the "belief in things not seen."

反过来说，宗教是基于不能被一般人类的判断能力证明的真理——"笃信你所看不到的事物"。

Americans are more religious, more patriotic and more willing to use force in global affairs than the citizens of other advanced countries.

这里more religious讲的是美国人比其他发达国家对宗教更加笃信。

Characteristic of Tibetan Buddhism is the unusually large segment of the population actively engaged in religious pursuits (up until the Chinese communist takeover of the country in the 1950s an estimated one-quarter of the inhabitants were members of religious orders); its system of "reincarnating lamas"; the traditional merger of the spiritual and temporal authority in the office and person of the Dalai Lama; and the vast number of divine beings (each with its own family, consort, and pacific and terrifying aspects), which are considered symbolic representations of the psychic life by the religiously sophisticated and accepted as realities by the common people.

藏传佛教的特征就是很多部分的人口积极地忙碌于宗教追求（中国共产党1950年接管西藏的时候，估计有四分之一居民是僧侣成员），有&喇嘛转世&的体制；传统上是精神与当时暂时的行政权威和达赖喇嘛合并在一起；大量数目的神职人员（每一个都有各自的家庭，配偶，有平静和可怕的面貌），被认为是笃信地诡辩象征性地描绘着精神生活，被普通人承认为真实。

Naxi Dongba religion is a form from the original form of the transition to the civilization of natural religion, its devout animists.

纳西族东巴教是一种从原始形态向文明形态过渡中的自然宗教，它笃信万物有灵。

According to the Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, a comprehensive history of this troubling yet topical phenomenon, while suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, when religion is involved, it is always Muslim.

根据牛津大学社会学家、《让自杀使命变得有意义》的编辑Diego Gambetta，评论这种具争议的时事现象是说，当自杀使命不再被人笃信时，宗教总是牵涉在内，而且总是穆斯林。

The religious man of pre-modern times, who accepted reality as God-ordained, had given way to the secular fanatic, increasingly inclined to usurp God in the effort to construct heaven on earth, subordinating not only nature but humanity itself to his own utopian vision.

前现代时期，人们信仰宗教，认为世间万物皆为神创。如今，这种笃信已光华不再，取而代之的是世俗的狂热信徒。他们图谋推翻神位，在地球上建立天国--乌托邦。为此，他们不择手段，不惜牺牲自然，甚或人类自己。

Sen. McCain is favored by older voters and regular churchgoers.

年纪较大的选民和笃信宗教的人则更喜欢麦凯恩。

Yet quite a number of psychologists and neurologists are also religious people. How do we explain that?

然而，许多权威心理学家和精神病学家，却是笃信宗教的虔诚信徒，这又如何解释呢？

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了