An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

荒原这种环境，可以使心满意足的女人成为诗人，受苦受难的女人成为修女，虔诚笃信的女人谱写圣歌，甚至佻的女人冷静深思，使桀骛不驯的女人忧郁阴沉。

He yearns to have faith in faith, and not in the facile kind either.

他渴望笃信信仰，而不是率地相信。

This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.

这是一个怀疑一切的时代，可是虽然我们对我们祖先笃信的许多事物已不太相信，我们对瓶装药品疗效的信心仍与祖辈一样坚定。

But some people think that it does.

但是有些人却笃信不移。

But some bros religiously believe in the value of training daily.

但有些哥们却笃信每天锻炼有好。

Koolhaas has lost some of his faith that architecture alone can solve problems.

库哈斯已经不再笃信仅靠建筑就解决问题这一信念。

Oftentimes, a fallacy we make is thinking that we can force the unenforceable, believing that when we push hard enough, we'll eventually get where we want to go.

通常，我们所笃信的一个谬论是认为我们可以强求无法做到的事情，相信当我们足够努力时，我们最终会到达我们想去的地方。

Yet it's a very powerful fiction that people really believe.

然而这是个民众笃信、影响深远的说法。

Miao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for life, so their presence is a favor and a blessing, bringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a home.

苗族人笃信成双燕终身相伴不离不弃，因此他们的存在被视为是婚姻幸福美满和家运的象征和祝福。

The Aztecs believe they owe a debt of blood to their gods.

阿兹特克人笃信需要向神灵敬奉鲜血。

So no quick-fix. And the believe in quick-fix, the expectation of the quick-fix that is one of the reasons why levels of the depression are so high today, because people are frustrated. They are disappointed.

所以说，没有灵丹妙药，而且正是那种对灵丹妙药的笃信和渴求导致了今天抑郁症如此高发频发，因为家都很郁闷，很失望。

Then, convinced blood pressure meds made her feel worse, she saw a homeopath and switched to alternative treatments, like drinking water purified by crystals. The result: kidney failure.

后来，她笃信服用降压药会让她感觉更糟，于是她找到了采用顺势疗法的医生，改用其他疗法，比如饮用由水晶净化的水。结果是肾衰竭。

Climate scientists are pretty confident that if human emissions of greenhouse gases follow worst case scenarios, we'd melt enough ice to see some slow down in this ocean circulation.

气候科学家笃信，如果人类排放温室气体按照最坏的情况发展，我们会融化足够多的冰，看到海洋环流放缓的那一天。

We know that Biden has said repeatedly that he does plan to run for reelection, but he has also said that he's a big believer in fate.

我们知道，拜登多次表示，他确实计划要竞选连任，但他也表示，他笃信命运。

And I grew up in a world believing that my worth and my standing was in keeping these rules that I'd known my whole life.

我长的世界， 笃信我的价值及立场就是为了持守 我熟悉了一辈子的规定。

He said There is this myth that finance ministers still live by, that you have to let industry pollute or else you won't develop.

“财政部长仍然笃信一种荒诞信条：工业不污染，经济难发展。

In every other respect he conformed to the religion of the young settlement, and gained the name of being an orthodox and straight-walking man.

除了这一点以外，在其他各个方面，他对于这个新兴殖民地上的这个宗教却是奉不懈的，而且被公认为是一个笃信正教、为正派的人。

The ancient Greeks certainly believed that dolphins were very special.

古希腊人笃信海豚是很特别的。

I've got a much deeper belief in God. And I prayed numerous times for help, and I got it.

我更加笃信上帝。我祈祷求助了无数次，也得到了回应。

Both he and Paul Johnson, the general manager, were sure business would improve when the weather got warm.

他和总经理保罗·约翰逊都笃信，待天气转暖后，生意会好转。