Distance, my friend, is like futurity.

距离，我朋友，就像未来。

But who can see an inch into futurity beyond his nose?

但是谁能看到他鼻子之外未来寸呢？

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distinct futurity.

从过去情况来看， 我们可以有把握推断， 没有生物物种会将其未改变相似性传递到截然不同未来。

Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait—and into futurity.

庞得贝先生关上门，站在炉火前。以他过去爆炸性方式将自己投射到他肖像中——并投射到未来。

Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day, and in the same hour, sitting thoughtful in his own room. How much of futurity did he see?

同同时间，葛雷格林先生正坐在自己房间里若有所思。他看到了多少未来？

Do you acknowledge that the power of looking into futurity and seeing things that are not, as if they were, is an attribute of the Creator?

你是否承认展望未来并看到事物并非存在力量是造物主属性？

It had shown him where to set his foot, while the light of earth was fast becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach him.

它告诉他该在哪里落脚，而光芒正在迅速变暗，未来光芒还没有到达他面前。

He was leaning with his elbows on the table and his chin on his hands, looking into a futurity which seemed to be sketched out on the tablecloth.

他手肘支在桌子上，双手托着下巴，看着桌布上仿佛勾勒出未来。

He gave laws to the elements; He could reverse the order of nature; His eye read the mandates of futurity, and the infernal Spirits were submissive to his commands.

他赋予元素法则； 他可以颠倒自然秩序； 他眼睛阅读了未来命令， 狱之灵顺从了他命令。

At times, a fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as Eternal Justice should provide.

有时， 种可怕疑虑占据了她灵魂，是否立即将珠儿送往堂，让她自己去永恒正义所提供未来更好。

If you mean to secure ease and prosperity on earth as the first consideration, and leave futurity to provide for itself, you act prudently in giving your child an early insight into the weaknesses of his nature.

如果您打算首先考虑在上获得安逸和繁荣，而让未来自给自足，那么您就应该谨慎行事，让您孩子及早了解他本性弱点。

If the power of reflecting on the past, and darting the keen eye of contemplation into futurity, be the grand privilege of man, it must be granted that some people enjoy this prerogative in a very limited degree.

如果反思过去、用敏锐眼光审视未来能力是人类大特权，那么必须承认，有些人在非常有限程度上享有这种特权。

Those who make them a proof of a " future state" must necessarily suppose gradations in that futurity; does the savage, scarce risen above the brute, enter upon the same " new life" as the man of highest civilization?

那些将它们作为“未来状态”证明人必须假设未来等级；野蛮人，几乎没有超越野蛮，是否进入了与最高文明人相同“新生活”？