正如一名外交官一语双关地指出的那样，一大批宿命论者认为俄罗斯“使我们处于困境”。

A larger group of fatalists who think that Russia "has us over a barrel", as one diplomat punningly puts it.

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我们的生命就好像是很努力地将一块大石头推上山坡，当我们快要将它推上山坡的时候，它又滑了下来，我们又得将它推上山坡，也许这就是我们的宿命。

Our life is like to work hard, and took a great stone on the hillside, when we will crush it on the hillside, it slipped, we shall have put it on the hillside, perhaps this is our destiny.

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他深深地信仰宿命论，以至于这种信仰都差不多成了一种毒害，在消极方面简直就和放弃哲学一样，和叔本华与雷奥巴狄的哲学同出一源。

His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.

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