The logic of deterrence, and later of mutually assured destruction—which presumes that war between nuclear-armed nations is impossible, because the mutual annihilation ensures that neither side could win—applies only to rational actors.

核威慑逻辑以及同生共亡的理论（该理论持有者认为核武器国家是不会有战争的，因为相互之的灭亡会使任何一方都无法赢得战争）只适用于理性行为者。

To present an opposing political idea, to suggest we wanted something different to eat, to be frank about our tiredness or anxiety, could threaten us with annihilation.

表达相反的政治观点，提议吃点不同的食物，坦诚我们的疲惫或焦虑，这些行为都可能对我们造成歼灭性威胁。

Hundreds of thousands of trawlers scrape the ocean bottom and they remove everything in their path leaving devastation behind and its annihilation fishing pure and simple, and it has to stop.

成千上万的拖网渔船在海底扫荡，把沿途的一切都清除掉，这是毁灭性的捕鱼，所以必须停止。

This is the epoch, when the only remaining energy in our universe, is generated due to the decay of protons and the annihilation of individual particles.

这是一个新时代，是由我们宇宙中仅存的能量是由质子的衰变和单个粒子的湮灭而产生的。

It expresses the risk of nuclear annihilation as time remaining until midnight.

这个钟告诫着我们, 随着时移我们所面临的核毁灭的风险。

To look for the annihilation spectrum resulting from dark matter collisions in space.

以观察由于宇宙暗物质的碰撞而产生的光谱湮灭现象。

With civilisation facing annihilation, it was up to America to save Western culture from fascism.

现代文明面临被消灭的危险，美国必须要站出来把西方文明从法西斯的魔爪中拯救出来。

Annihilation's bad enough, without anarchy to make things even worse.

毁于一旦已经够糟了无政府状态只会雪上加霜。

Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.

如果有什么毁灭性的事情发生，那一定就是这东西干的。

And one Internet economist told me that that meant that Google made somewhere between 120,000 dollars and 468,000 dollars from Justine's annihilation, whereas those of us doing the actual shaming -- we got nothing.

一位网络经济学家告诉说那意味着谷歌赚了约12万至46万8千美元之，全有赖于贾丝婷的毁灭，而我们这些喷子，连一个子儿都没拿到。

To counteract the malign spell which she imagined poor Eustacia to be working, the boy's mother busied herself with a ghastly invention of superstition, calculated to bring powerlessness, atrophy, and annihilation on any human being against whom it was directed.

为了反击她想像中那可怜的游苔莎施行的魔法，男孩的母亲正忙着进行一种可怖的迷信法术，这种法术不管用到谁身上，都会让他浑身乏力、萎缩退化，最终彻底毁灭。

The Pope said nuclear weapons were not the answer to a desire for security, peace and stability, arms which threatened total annihilation he said only fermented fear and mistrust.

教宗表示，核武器并不能解决人们对安全、和平与稳定的渴望，这些武器是人类毁灭的威胁，只会滋生恐惧和不信任。

Of course, Witzke and Anderson added hastily and more or less in unison, there would have been terrible devastation across much of the Earth, as just described, and complete annihilation for hundreds of miles around ground zero.

当然，威策克和安德森连忙——一定程度上是异口同声地——补充说，地球上很多地方都受到了严重的破坏，就像刚刚描述的那样，方圆几百公里的地方被化为乌有。

Most obviously, they take on new forms based on changes in our collective fears, transform their settings to whatever apocalypse we deem most likely: be it nuclear annihilation, ecological catastrophe, viral pandemics, and so on.

最明显的是，它们基于我们集体恐惧的变化而呈现出新的形式，将场景转变为我们认为最有可能发生的末日——无论是核毁灭、生态灾难，还是病毒大流行，等等。

A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.

说话稍一不慎，行动偶失检点，立刻就会招来杀身之祸；而且谁也不知道笼罩在他们头上的这种可怕的势力究竟是什么。

That long tradition has ended here -in a vessel suspended between ceiling and floor, life and death, on a journey to safety or to an annihilation...

这个悠久的传统结束于此 在天花板和地板之悬挂的船只上在生与死之 在通往安全 亦或是消亡的旅途之中。

The ring is too large to simulate annihilations like before, but you have a programmable device you can point at spots between cubes.

环太大了，因此无法像以前那样模拟湮灭，但你有一个可写程式的装置，你可以指向立方体之的点。

Like a mirror, Mr Loznitsa's film reflects and inverts that process, using fiction to expose the wounds inflicted by the annihilation of truth.

就像一面镜子，洛兹尼察先生的电影反映和逆转了这一过程，用虚构来揭露真相被毁灭所造成的创伤。

In 1947, the symbolic clock was first set at seven minutes to midnight by designer Martyl Langsdorf representing their fears of atomic annihilation.

1947年，这个象征性的时钟首次被设计为距离七分钟，由设计师Martyl Langsdorf代表他们对原子毁灭的恐惧。

After all, when an antiparticle meets a particle, a so-called annihilation occurs.

毕竟，当反粒子遇到粒子时，就会发生所谓的湮灭。