One of the basic precepts of paleontology is the present is the key to the past.

古生物学的一个基本方面就是现在是了解过去的关键。

May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

愿你用手帮助我，因我拣选了你的训词。

Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts.

我微小，被人藐视，却不忘记你的训词。

And a lot of the precepts make a lot of sense.

而且很多都很有意义。

Precepts are rules for really important things.

是真正重要事情的规则。

Because precepts can also tell us a lot about ourselves.

因为可以告诉我们很多关于我们自的事情。

The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony.

原始教会的践明显反对婚姻。

Passage Two Early diagnosis has become one of the most fundamental precepts of modern medicine.

第二章 早期诊断已成为现代医学最基本的之一。

I obey your precepts and your statutes, for all my ways are known to you.

我遵守了你的训词法度，因我一切所行的都在你面前。

These precepts will influence your success; they prepare the way for it, they will secure it.

这些将影响你的成功； 他们为它铺路， 他们将确保它。

How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

我羡慕你的训词，求你使我在你的公义上生活。

This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.

我所以如此，是因我守你的训词。

I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

我要自由而行（或作" 我要行在宽阔之地" ），因我素来考究你的训词。

Consciousness is not basically built upon those precepts of good and evil that so presently concern you.

意识基本上不是建立在那些当下与你有关的善恶之上的。

For North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons would require a fundamental change in its founding and governing precepts.

朝鲜要放弃核武器，就必须从根本上改变其建国理念与执政原则。

I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.

凡敬畏你、守你训词的人，我都与他作伴。

My precept is, " Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something" '.

我的是， “做点什么， 我的姐妹，如果你能做点好事； 但是，无论如何，做点什么” 。

Toyota is well-known for its precept of genchi genbutsu (go and see for yourself), which encourages managers to investigate manufacturing problems in person.

丰田以其“现地现物”（亲自去看）的理念而闻名，该理念鼓励管理者亲自调查制造问题。

Dutifully, if at all, we strain our imaginations to conceive the kind of audience to whom these precepts were addressed.

我们尽职地（如果有的话）发挥想象力来想象这些是针对什么样的受众。

These, then, are the fundamental precepts which everyone must heed who would command our beautiful English language.

那么，这些是每个想要掌握我们美丽的英语的人都必须注意的基本规则。