These notes are in the nature of a confession.

下面这篇文字实际上是一篇自白书。

It was in the nature of things.

这是事物的本质。

The dinner-service in question was expensive, but that might be in the nature of dinner-services.

有问题的晚餐服务很贵， 但这可能是晚餐服务的性质。

It is in the nature of the bond markets that, when conditions are good, investors get more relaxed about credit quality.

自然，当债券市场运转良好的时候，投资者对信用更放心.

The icy spray that attacked the shoulders like splinters of fine glass was in the nature of a cross.

像精美玻璃碎片一样袭击肩膀的冰冷水花具有十字架的性质。

It is in the nature of the activist to believe that she is the first to see a particular injustice.

活动家的本性是相信她是第一个看到特定不公正现象的人。

Consumers may blame themselves for overindulging in these foods, but what if it is in the nature of these products to be overeaten?

消费者可能会责怪自己过度沉迷于这些食品，但如果这些产品的特点就是让人们过量食用呢?

It is in the nature of our working selves to be both clear in their dissatisfactions and yet maddeningly oblique about their real direction.

这一切只不过是工作中自我的天性使然：一方面很清楚自己对工作不满；另一方面对自己真正的方向是什么模棱两可而抓狂。

Thus these chapters are in the nature of a digression, which will prevent us for a time from pursulng our main theme.

因此，这些章节具有题外话的性质，这将暂时阻止我们追寻我们的主题。

It is in the nature of groups of experts (which is precisely what peer-review panels are) to know both each other and each other's most promising acolytes.

对于同在一组的专家们来说了解彼此和彼此最有前途的助手，这是人之常情（这也是同侪审查小组的实质）。

That, if it were in the nature of traitorous ways to thrive (which happily it never was), the real wickedness and guilt of his business might have remained undiscovered.

那，如果它的本质是叛逆的繁荣方式（幸运的是它从来没有），那么他的企业真正的邪恶和罪恶可能仍未被发现。

It is in the nature of innkeepers and all men who have no pressing business of their own to ask as many questions as possible before giving any information.

客栈老板和所有没有自己紧迫事务的人的本性是在提供任何信息之前尽可能多地提问。

And from loving it with a vanity that was almost masculine—it had been in the nature of a triumphant and dazzling career—she became suddenly anaesthetic to it. She retired.

她以一种近乎男性化的虚荣心爱上了它——这是一种胜利而耀眼的职业的本质——她突然变得麻木了。她退休了。

As subsistence is, in the nature of things, prior to conveniency and luxury, so the industry which procures the former, must necessarily be prior to that which ministers to the latter.

就事物的本质而言，维持生计先于便利和奢侈，因此，获得前者的勤奋必然先于为后者服务的勤奋。

The process to be issued was in the nature of replevin, directed to the sheriff of the parish, commanding him to take me into custody, and detain me until the decision of the court.

将要发布的程序具有replevin的性质，针对教区的治安官， 命令他拘留我，并拘留我直到法院做出决定。

But it was in the nature of fathers, Fred knew, to bully one about expenses: there was always a little storm over his extravagance if he had to disclose a debt, and Fred disliked bad weather within doors.

但弗雷德知道，父亲的本性就是在开支问题上欺负一个人：如果他不得不披露债务，他的奢侈总是会引发一场小风暴，而且弗雷德不喜欢室内的恶劣天气。

But it was in the nature of things that the initial shock of their arrival should have left them with slender reserves either of indignation or astonishment; even Mallinson, after his first outburst, subsided into a mood of half-bewildered fatalism.

但就事物的本质而言，他们到来时最初的震惊本应使他们对愤慨或惊讶保持微弱的保留；就连马林森，在他第一次爆发之后，也陷入了半信半疑的宿命论情绪中。