查询词典 assert oneself

The theme of artistic affirmation is further developed in Cat's cradle, in which Vonnegut advocates a free play of human imagination as an effective way to assert man's role as a sub-creator.

猫的摇篮》继续阐发了这一主题，强调面对上帝缺席的宇宙，虚无主义于事无补，只会加深悲观绝望的情绪，而艺术想象的活力则赋予人类生存以无限丰富的意义和可能性。

Apologists for environmental pollution in China assert that that pollution is a necessary and acceptable cost to ensure the country's "development".

在中国，那些环境污染的拥护者声称，为了保证国家的&发展&，污染是一个必要的和可以接受的代价。

Dominant babblers assert their dominance by feeding subordinates.

强势的小鸟给下属喂食来巩固它的权势。

But obstacles, misfortunes, cataclysms, were to it merely new opportunities to assert its power.

各种生命的阻碍，如不幸、地壳运动只不过是给了它新的机会来展现自己的力量。

Because special residual claims have their own bases and characteristics, it is not exact to assert that "the firm should be controlled by the residual claimers" or "the residual claimers owned the firm".

与此同时，&剩余控制权&也不是一个严谨的概念，因为它的基础是&资本强权观&，而这种权力观不仅没有坚实的基础，而且也不能被逻辑一致的坚持到底。

When the timer counter decrements to "0", it will assert the appropriateinterrupt.

当时减计数器减到&0&时，它将产生合适的中断。

Since I was a boy, I had watched people assert their piety and moral superiority as justifications for claiming an entitlement to political power, and for demonizing those who begged to differ with them, usually over civil rights.

在孩提时代，我已经看到人们坚称宗教信仰的虔诚和道德的高人一等，并以此作为要求得到政治权力的理由，作为丑化那些恳求去拥有不同意见者的理由——通常是在民权方面。

Both questions have troubled "two realm" philosophers—or dualists to give them their more usual name—, but the former has troubled them more, since modern physics is founded on principles that assert the conservation of various physical quantities. If a non-physical event causes a change in the physical world—dualists are repeatedly asked—, does that not imply that physical quantities like energy or momentum fail to be conserved in any physically closed causal system in which that change occurs?

所有这些问题困扰着二元论的哲学家，但是前一个问题更麻烦些，因为现代物理学坚持多种物理量的守恒原理，二元论者就会反复追问：如果一个非物理事件导致了物理世界的变化，那么，这不是就导出物理量不会守恒（而这是在物理上封闭的因果系统所会发生的）？

When Canada felt the need to assert its sovereignty in the 1950s, Inuit families from northern Quebec were relocated to unfamiliar terrain in the high Arctic. Many of these "human flagpoles" sickened and died.

而到了19世纪50年代，加拿大政府认为有必要重申其统治权，于是魁北克省北部生活的因纽特人居民被转移到了北极高地的一个陌生地带，许多的人也因此而生病并死亡，就像旗杆一个个地倒下。

I assert that the level of embeddedness of economic behavior is lower in nonmarket societies than is claimed by substantivists and development theorists, and it has changed less with "modernization" than they believe; but I argue also that this level has always been and continues to be more substantial than is allowed for by formalists and economists.

我认为，如果使用嵌入性理论来审视社领会经济生活及其与之相关的社会结构的话，无论是在工业社会还是在前工业社会，嵌入性的现象始终存在，只不过在各个社会中嵌入的层次和程度是不同。在非市场社会中嵌入性的层次要比实质主义者和发展理论家所宣称的要低，而随著现代化发生的变迁要比他们所相信的要小；当我也主张，这一层次比起形式主义者和经济学家所考虑的，总是并将继续是更为实质性的。

We were cousins—his grandfather was King of Scots,and his great-grandfather was Henry VII of England.

我们是堂姐弟——他的祖父曾是苏格兰国王，他的曾祖父是英格兰的亨利二世。

I do want to help you, but I am in a quandary now!

我是想帮你，但是我现在左右为难啊！