certainties

The certainties of Judaism made it attractive in that age of dissolving faiths, but circumcision was an obstacle to the conversion of men.

在各种宗教信仰的崩溃期，犹太教的确实性很吸引人，但割礼却是人们改宗时的一大障碍。

In a few years ' time , nostalgia will set in for the go-go years on Wall Street and for the bracing moral certainties of neoconservatism .

过不了几年，对华尔街欢乐年华，对新保守主义令人鼓舞的道义确定性，人们的怀旧情绪将会油然而生。

The answer is : No. The results are just as destructive to the pious certainties of " progressives" as to those of their opponents .

答案是：不。其结果对于“进步人士”及其反对者所确信的东西都同样具有毁灭性。

Of course, it's not always a pleasant experience to have our certainties stripped away.

当然，把自己确定的东西剥除不是那么愉快的经历。

Those brought up on a "if I know how it works I can fix it" mentality must have difficulty letting go of the old certainties.

“如果我知道它的原理我就能应付”这种心理伴随了一批人的成长，他们是无法对即成事实忽略不计的。

But maybe it is time for an alternative to the brash certainties , peddled by those pseudo- scientists, otherwise known as economists .

但或许是时候找到其它东西，来取代那些伪科学家（或称经济学家）所兜售的轻率定论了。

How does that prediction, or any of the other apparent certainties at the time of the crisis look now?

如今，这一预测——或者在危机之时其它任何明显的确定性——看起来怎样了呢？

That could be dangerous: it is an invitation to the far left and right to peddle their beguiling certainties.

这可能很危险：这是在邀请极左和极右势力兜售他们带骗人的确定性。

What is exciting in life is to discover something new about yourself, and not to be controlled by such certainties about oneself.

生命令人兴奋的地方，正是发现自己另一面，而不受自我肯定的东西所束缚。

With the last midnight trams all human hope seemed drained away, all the certainties of city noises gone.

最后几班深夜的街车开过后，人间的一切希望好像都被带走了，因市井嘈杂而生的实在感也一扫而空。

The diplomatic certainties that once anchored relations between the two countries have long disappeared.

而原先能够稳定两国外交关系的那些确定性因素早就消失殆尽了。

DEATH and taxes, it is said, are the only two certainties in life.

有人说，死亡和赋税是人生仅有的两个必然。

And rather than feeding voters infantile advertisements peddling childish certainties, politicians should treat voters like grown-ups.

政客们与其用幼稚的无关紧要的广告讨好选民，不如像成年人亿样对待他们。

It will undoubtedly cause puzzlement and consternation among those who yearn for the false certainties of an earlier era.

但毋庸置疑，这会令那些渴望延续旧日错误的人们感到困惑和惊恐。

Only at the cost of losing the basis of all my certainties can I question what is conveyed to me by my presence to myself.

只有以丧失我所有的稳定结构的基础作为代价，我才可能会质疑到，我存在于自我世界，所被传达的讯息。

Just occasionally, the power of ordinary people can overturn the certainties of the experts.

普通大众的力量推翻专家们的论断只是偶尔发生的情况。

I always boost my list with a few near certainties that I am highly confident will receive a tick.

我总是会在清单中加上少量我非常确信能在近期实现的内容。

But we do not believe that climate change is a certainty. There are no certainties in science.

但是气候变化是否明确我们无从而知，科学领域没有确定性。

Likewise, for all the new freedoms and certainties the web has created, numerous old ones have disappeared. Consider copyright.

与此类似的是，在网络所创造的“自由”和必然性背后，有些东西正在消失。

Beneath all of Einstein's theories, including relativity, was a quest for certainties and absolutes.

实际不然，爱因斯坦所有理论（包括相对论）背后对必然和绝对的追求。