亚历克斯·哈利之所以决定去冈比亚，是因为他相信自己可以在非洲找到自己的“起源”。

It was the belief that he could find his "root" in Africa that made Alex Haley decide to go to Gambia.

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它包含相信自己可以成功。

It involves believing that you are able to succeed.

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我相信自己可以。

I believe they can.

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So I conclude, of course you can and do believe you're going to die.

我可以下结论,人当然是可以相信自己的死亡的。

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All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

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