1·And, if we know it for a certainty, how do we know it?
如果我们确实知道这些情况,我们又是如何得知的呢?
2·I know for a certainty that the company has been bought up.
我确实知道公司已经被人收购了。
3·I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, 'Pip, what a fool you are!
可是我又不得不承认她一定会带给我不幸。我在心中暗暗责备自己:“皮普,你是多么愚蠢啊!”
4·A lack of certainty will cause confusion as to what a company is willing to accept in terms of, for example, counterparty risk or trading limits.
缺少确定性将导致对一个公司去接受何种风险,例如交易对手风险或是交易风险的问题发生混淆。
5·"For everything there is a season" is a phrase with a ring of majestic certainty. But with air-freighted fruit and genetically modified veg, it too is wrong.
“万物皆有时节”是一句暗示着庄重宏伟的必然性的短语,但用到空运水果和基因改良蔬菜头上,也是错误的了。
6·There was not a high probability of success for the summit. I called it because I believed that the collapse of the peace process would be a near certainty if I didn’t.
这次峰会取得成功的可能性并不大,我之所以还要召集这次会议是因为,如果我不这样做,和平进程失败不久就会成为定局。
7·Aside from a false certainty that one would notice more people wearing oversized primate costumes, this presumption could have some serious implications for the legal system and eyewitness testimony.
除了某人可能会看到更多穿了很大的灵长类动物的衣服的人,这种虚假的确定性以外,这样的假设还可能会对法律系统和目击者证言造成严重影响。
8·The star actor was NASA Godard Institute for Space Studies director James Hansen who claimed with 99 percent certainty that temperatures were rising due to a human-influenced "greenhouse effect".
明星演员是美国宇航局戈达尔太空研究所所长詹姆斯·汉森,他声称有99%的把握,由于人类活动影响的“温室效应”,气温正在上升。
9·Certainty about the status of human cases in a newly affected country is important for accurate risk assessment.
确定新近受感染国家人间病例的情况对准确的风险评估很重要。
10·A lot of them took jobs in corporate research laboratories-they were willing to exchange the chance of getting rich for the certainty of a regular salary.
他们中的很多人选择了公司研究实验室的工作——他们乐意于用发大财的契机来交换领取固定工资的稳定生活。