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

古生物学一个基本方面就是现在是解过去关键。

Here was a man who lived outside the faufreluches while obeying their every precept.

这是一个住在 faufreluches 之外人，同时遵守他们每一条戒律。

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

愿用手帮助我，因我拣选训词。

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

而且很多戒律都很有意义。

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戒律之一。

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

我微小，被人藐视，却不忘记训词。

Because precepts can also tell us a lot about ourselves.

因为戒律也可以告诉我们很多关于我们自己事情。

But there remains a fourth weighty precept, and one not altogether detachable from the third.

但是还有第四条重要戒律， 并且不能完全与第三条戒律分开。

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

我遵守训词和法度，因我一切所行都在面前。

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

这些戒律将影响成功； 他们为它铺路， 他们将确保它。

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。

Precepts are rules for really important things.

戒律是真正重要事情规则。

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

原始教会戒律和实践明显反对婚姻。

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

我羡慕训词，求使我在公义上生活。

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有关善恶戒律之上。

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" ），因我素来考究训词。

This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.

我所以如此，是因我守训词。

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

凡敬畏、守训词人，我都与他作伴。

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（如果有话）发挥想象力来想象这些戒律是针对什么样受众。

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英语人都必须注意基本规则。