"I am a scholar and a sceptic," he says.
“我是一个学者和怀疑论者”,他说。
I am not a confirmed sceptic rationalist.
我不是一个证实怀疑理性。
The determined sceptic can never be silenced.
坚决的怀疑分子是誓不罢休的。
The empirical sceptic appropriately responds: how do you know?
经验主义的怀疑者可以作适当的反应:你是如何知道的?
Another shale gas sceptic is Financial Times writer John Dizard.
另一种叶岩天然气怀疑理论来自金融时报作家John Dizard。
Sceptic: Boots would only have left their imprint on the lunar surface in moist material.
质疑者:只有在潮湿的表面上,靴子才可能会留下脚印。
Sceptic: a moon rock photographed during Apollo 16's mission is marked with the letter c.
质疑者:阿波罗16号执行任务时拍摄到的一块月面岩石上标有字母c。
Until 5th century B. C., this sceptic started, its main representative was the school of sophism.
直到公元前五世纪这种怀疑才开始出现,其主要代表是智者学派。
Caption: Sceptic: a moon rock photographed during Apollo 16's mission is marked with the letter c.
描述:质疑者:阿波罗16号执行任务时拍摄到的一块月面岩石上标有字母c。
Though he remains a sceptic, he provides a wealth of information to let the rest of us make up our minds.
尽管他仍是一个怀疑论者,但他也提供了大量信息让我们其他人下定决心。
The fact that Osborne has chosen this moment to reveal his climate-sceptic colours is also intriguing.
事实是,奥斯本选择此时透露其对气候变化的态度是有其玄机的。
Sceptic: the stars and stripes appears to be waving in the wind, which is impossible without an atmosphere.
质疑者:星条旗看起来似乎是迎风招展,然而在没有大气的情况下这是不可能的。
The success of Clubcard and Nectar in Britain seems to have persuaded a leading rewards-card sceptic to rethink.
“俱乐部卡”和“蜂蜜卡”在英国的成功使得积分卡奖励制度的怀疑者不得不重新思考。
"I went into the study as a sceptic," he added. "But I was quite surprised with the significance of the findings."
“我是持着怀疑的态度进行这次研究的,”他继续说道,“但是我被研究结果的重大意义给震惊了。”
A noted sceptic on the dotcom and housing booms, he closed his short-only fund (which bet on falling prices) in 2008.
作为对互联网和房地产繁荣的著名怀疑论者,他在2008年关闭了公司空头基金(做空,即赌股价下跌)。
If you can't rely on your faculties then you've got nothing with which to construct any sort of argument against the sceptic.
如果不能依赖感官,你就不能获得任何架构起反对怀疑论的论据。
I've long been a sceptic of systems that try to couple the identities of non-information resources too closely to computer representations.
在很长一段时间内,我一直质疑尝试将非信息资源实体与计算机表示密切配合使用的系统。
But, as one sceptic says, perhaps throwing Google's name into the fray is simply a canny move by bankers handling the sale to up the price.
不过,正如一名持怀疑态度的人所说的,也许是负责这次交易的投资银行为提高价格,才利用Google的名字来挑起争论。
Germany has been the leading Western sceptic in toughening economic sanctions on Iran to discourage its alarming uranium-enrichment programme.
在对伊朗实行严厉的经济制裁,迫使其放弃让人不安的铀浓缩计划上,德国一直是对这一行为持怀疑态度的主要西方国家。
Sceptic: Shadows cast by objects on the surface point in different directions, which proves there were several light sources - as in a TV studio.
质疑者:每个物体投射出的阴影方向均不同,这说明当时有数个光源——就像电视摄影棚中的情况。
Mr Kennedy, the most prominent sceptic about the power-sharing agreement, was said to have informally discussed his worries with opposition whips.
肯尼迪对权力分享协议的可行性极为怀疑,据说他曾正式同在野党鞭策者讨论过他的担心。
Caption: Sceptic: a third person would have had to be there with a camera to take photographs of astronauts arriving on the moon and blasting off again.
描述:质疑者:在宇航员踏上月球以及发射升空的时候,一定还有第三个人带着照相机拍摄这些场面。
Exxon Mobil, led until recently by a fierce sceptic of global warming, now concedes that there is a problem, and that its products are contributing to it.
过去一直对全球变暖论持强烈怀疑态度的埃克森美孚化工近日终于勉强承认其产品助长了该不良趋势。
In her new book, Committed: a Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage, she writes: "we marry most often because we are in love and we think it will make us happy."
在她的新书中,她写道“我们结婚通常都是因为我们恋爱了,我们觉得结婚会让我们幸福。”
In fact , it is the sceptic' discussion and analysis that gives rise to mankind's retrospection, expands the research on epistemology , and speeds up the growth of human's knowledge.
事实上,正是怀疑主义哲学家们以其虽苦涩却警醒的论析迫使人们反思,从而拓展了认识论问题的研究,促进了人类知识的增长。
The aspiring sceptic, therefore, should be especially alert to thoughts that come quickly and easily to mind—we can easily persuade ourselves with a single recall of a half-remembered thought.
所以作为一个谨慎者,我们应该尤其注意那些很容易且快速地钻进脑海中的念头,我们很可能会把这样一个似曾相识的念头当成理所当然的真理。
The aspiring sceptic, therefore, should be especially alert to thoughts that come quickly and easily to mind—we can easily persuade ourselves with a single recall of a half-remembered thought.
所以作为一个谨慎者,我们应该尤其注意那些很容易且快速地钻进脑海中的念头,我们很可能会把这样一个似曾相识的念头当成理所当然的真理。
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