Distance, my friend, is like futurity.

距离，我的朋友，就像未。

But who can see an inch into futurity beyond his nose?

但谁能看到他鼻子之外的未一寸呢？

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distinct futurity.

从过去的情况看， 我们可以有把握地推断， 没有一个生物物种会将其未改变的相似性传递到一个截然不同的未。

Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait—and into futurity.

庞得贝先生关上门，站在炉火前。以他过去的爆炸性方式将自己投射到他的肖像中——并投射到未。

Do you acknowledge that the power of looking into futurity and seeing things that are not, as if they were, is an attribute of the Creator?

你否承认展望未并看到事物并非存在的力量造物主的属性？

Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day, and in the same hour, sitting thoughtful in his own room. How much of futurity did he see?

同一天同一时，葛雷格林先生正坐在自己的若有所思。他看到了多少未？

It had shown him where to set his foot, while the light of earth was fast becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach him.

它告诉他该在哪落脚，而地球的光芒正在迅速变暗，未的光芒还没有到达他的面前。

He was leaning with his elbows on the table and his chin on his hands, looking into a futurity which seemed to be sketched out on the tablecloth.

他手肘支在桌子上，双手托着下巴，看着桌布上仿佛勾勒出的未。

He gave laws to the elements; He could reverse the order of nature; His eye read the mandates of futurity, and the infernal Spirits were submissive to his commands.

他赋予元素法则； 他可以颠倒自然秩序； 他的眼睛阅读了未的命令， 地狱之灵顺从了他的命令。

At times, a fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as Eternal Justice should provide.

有时， 一种可怕的疑虑占据了她的灵魂，否立即将珠儿送往天堂，让她自己去永恒正义所提供的未更好。

If you mean to secure ease and prosperity on earth as the first consideration, and leave futurity to provide for itself, you act prudently in giving your child an early insight into the weaknesses of his nature.

如果您打算首先考虑在地球上获得安逸和繁荣，而让未自给自足，那么您就应该谨慎行事，让您的孩子及早了解他本性的弱点。

If the power of reflecting on the past, and darting the keen eye of contemplation into futurity, be the grand privilege of man, it must be granted that some people enjoy this prerogative in a very limited degree.

如果反思过去、用敏锐的眼光审视未的能力人类的一大特权，那么必须承认，有些人在非常有限的程度上享有这种特权。

Those who make them a proof of a " future state" must necessarily suppose gradations in that futurity; does the savage, scarce risen above the brute, enter upon the same " new life" as the man of highest civilization?

那些将它们作为“未状态”证明的人必须假设未的等级；野蛮人，几乎没有超越野蛮，否进入了与最高文明人相同的“新生活”？