1·None of these places is doomed. Human agency can triumph over determinism. But we should not be naive either: Geography is one more strike against them.
这些地方没有一个注定就是如此。人的能动作用是可以打破宿命论的。但是，我们也不该那么天真幼稚：地理又一次捉弄了他们。
2·But there was also something comic in her chosen image for man’s transience—the indestructible trope of the doomed mayfly.
但是对于她遴选情人短暂的化身方面，她本人也存在着滑稽的成分——采用注定短命的浮游做比喻。
3·Those who are shy or pride refuse to learn from others. They are doomed to remain alone and lose a great source of personal improvement.
那些害羞或者骄傲的人拒绝向其他人学习，注定他们要孤单并且失去自我提升的重要资源。
4·Though this often doomed an individual cell's own genes, it gave rise to a co-operative organism that successfully passed those genes on indirectly.
尽管这通常注定某个细胞的基因无法传给下一代，但却使得联合形成生物体可以间接地将基因成功遗传给下一代。
5·Received opinion holds, in the phrase of Auguste Comte, a 19th-century social scientist, that "demography is destiny" and that Europe is doomed by its death-spiral population Numbers.
公认的看法认为，用19世纪社会学家奥古斯特·孔德的话来说就是“人口统计学是天命”，而欧洲是由其死亡螺旋式的人口数字注定的。