研英翻译演练(9)

i have never been able to find in any man's book or any man's talk anything convincing enough to stand up for a moment against my deep-seated sense of fatality governing this man-inhabited world.

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要点：in any man's book or any man's talk是结构，要提前翻译。convincing enough to stand up for a moment against my deep-seated sense of fatality governing this man-inhabited world修饰anything。for a moment是“目前，眼下”的意思。stand up against是“面对反驳”的意思。

译文：我从来没能在任何人的著作里或谈话中找到足以令人信服的证据，来反驳我有关主宰人类社会的、根深蒂固的宿命论。