It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.

它可以是黑暗，也可以是一种精神，在古希腊的一个，偏向于哲学上多神论的宗教中，它可以是命运。

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The blind Fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.

这里的暴怒是指神话人物阿特洛波斯;,命运剪断了维系生命的细线。

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This is Hobbes' answer to Machiavelli's famous call in chapter 25 to master fortuna, to master chance or luck, fortune.

这就是霍布斯对马基雅维利那句有名号召的答案,那个号召在第25章中，说的是要掌控命运，掌控机会，掌控运气，掌控时机。

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We usually only talk about Manifest Destiny when we're talking about the westward movement beyond the Mississippi.

当我们谈到跨越密西西比河的西进运动时,我们一般只认为这是命运天定

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But what it is quite clear is that it left the hands of government the ability to pick winners and losers and that is a very dangerous power.

但显而易见的是,政府有生杀大权,掌握公司的命运,这是非常危险的权。

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The lists of reasons to kill himself were "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "a sea of troubles," and "the heartache in the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."

一张是要自杀的原因,“命运的种种捉弄和折磨”,“无穷尽的烦恼“,”血肉之躯必定要承受无数的,锥心之痛“

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Machiavelli said in that famous chapter 25, that the prince, if he is lucky, will master fortuna about half the time, only about 50% of the time.

马基雅维利在有名的第25章里说，君主，如果他幸运的话，可以在一半的时间里掌握命运，仅仅是50%的时间。

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And Manifest Destiny was the engine of capitalism, make no mistake.

而且,命运天定思想,是资本主义的发动机,这点无容置疑

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To what extent is your fate sealed?

你的人生又有多少是由命运决定的呢

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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