As things stand at present, he seems certain to win.

据目前情况看，他似乎胜券在握。

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Only certain things such as calculators and dictionaries are allowed in the exams.

考试中只允许使用某些东西，如计算器和字典。

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Philosophical certainties could not be had, according to Xenophanes, for even if we chance to hit upon the truth, there is no way of knowing for certain that things are as we think they are.

据他的看法，并无任何哲学上的确定性可言，因为即使我们碰巧触及了真相，也没有方法确信事物就正像我们所认为的那样。

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They may be born to perform certain things and as such they're duty bound to follow them.

他们天生的职责不同,所以他们的义务肯定会不同。

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We could begin to put a certain amount of pressure on the text and possibly, as I say, - begin to do things with it which are kind of a five-finger exercise-- -- we'll be doing a lot more of that sort of thing--but which might work.

开始时我们应该对文本抱有一定的怀疑,就像我说的，用一种五指练习法来做-,以后我们会大量涉及到这种练习。

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Or more carefully, it's way about talking about certain things the body can do when it's functioning properly, when it's well tuned, as we might put it.

或者更谨慎地说是谈论,身体在机能正常的时候,可以进行的一些活动，我们也可以说在音调调好的时候。

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