The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind it is simply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise and exact explanation.
译文:科学研究的方法不过是人类思维活动的必要表达方式,也就是对一切现象进行思索并给予准确而严谨解释的表达方式。(nothing but 译成"只不过",反义正译)
The United Nations has not, so far, justified the hopes which the people of the world set on it.
译文:迄今为止,联合国辜负了世界人民寄予的希望。(反义正译)
I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable character.
To criticize it for such failure is roughly comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind velocity.
译文:批评智力测试不反映上述情况,犹如批评温度计不能够测风速一样。
such failure是正面表达,但是从上下文看,是指An intelligence test does not measure character, social adjustments...,所以译成"不反映上述情况"。
Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth.