首先，我们迫切地需要相信世界有意义，相信每个结果都有原因，每件事发生都有理由。

The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens.

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她没有给出充分的理由说明迟到的原因。

She didn't give an adequate explanation for being late.

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人们总是为这原因、那理由的挤进政界，其实无非就是为了——权利。

People get into politics for one reason and one reason only... power.

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Another characteristic of these years, which scholars refer to as the Dark Ages, just as they do the years after the fall of the Roman Empire-- dark for two reasons. Dark, in the most obvious way, because we don't have any writing, no record of them.

这也是这段时期的另一个特征,学者们称之为,黑暗时代,他们也是这么称呼,罗马帝国陷落后的那段时期的,称黑暗主要有两个原因,黑暗,最明显的理由,是因为我们没有任何关于他们的史料和记录

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