Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode -but one can't say with any degree of certainty which ones and when.

雷区是充满随机分布的爆炸的区域：我们可以确定它们中的一些，在某个时候，会爆炸——但我们不能以任何程度的确定新说要爆炸的是哪个区域以及何时爆炸。

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Few of us would hire someone to repair their home without knowing how much it will cost and how long it will take at least with some degree of certainty.

至少，在某种程度上，很少有人会在不知道花费或是不知道持续时间的情况下雇佣某人以修整他们的房屋。

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So it has been proposed that blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women as mates because they have some degree of certainty over fatherhood.

所以通常认为蓝眼睛男性优先选择蓝眼睛女性作为配偶是因为可以在一定程度上保证父亲的身份。

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Nobody can say with any degree of certainty what policy will be on Jan. 1, 2013.

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The consensus is that we will avoid it, though the degree of certainty varies.

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Only credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of certainty, will guide our decision-making.

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