And it gives them more of a certainty if they have a computer establishing their own biases, especially if the computer is wrong.

如果他们有一台计算机来建立自己的偏见，这会给他们更多的确定性，特别是如果计算机是错误的。

Possibly at home, but of a certainty impossible for handmaid to anticipate intentions of Miss Pross, as to admission or denial of the fact.

可能在家里，但女仆肯定不可能预料到普罗斯小姐的意图，即承认或否认这一事实。

And at a tragic extreme, there are heart-breakingly fine-looking people who starve themselves to ill-health and eventually die out of a certainty, immune to every logical argument, of their own unsightliness.

而另一个悲剧性的极端，令人心碎的是有这样一些外表优秀的人，他们把自己饿到不健康的程度，最终却仍逃不过一种不受任何逻辑论证的影响，那就是对自身丑陋的坚信。

The fear that this was the case increased Elfride's perturbation, till it assumed the dimensions of a certainty, for how could a stranger from the other end of the ship possibly contrive to get in?

对这种情况的恐惧增加了 Elfride 的不安， 直到它呈现出确定性的维度， 因为来自船另一端的陌生人怎么可能设法进入？