任何构建理想社会的努力都注定要失败。

Any attempt to construct an ideal society is foredoomed to failure.

《牛津词典》

任何基于疲软的美元之上的经济策略都注定会失败。

Any economic strategy based on a weak dollar is destined to fail.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

看起来，他们的计划注定要失败。

Their plans seemed doomed to failure.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.

似乎是注定了的，亚当要掉进善恶的知识中,也就是说，了解善恶。

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

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