The procedure, the order of things.

程序，事情的顺序。

So we're talking about the order of things.

我们讨论的是事情发展的顺序。

Ordinal numbers are numbers that show the order of things.

序数词表示的是事物的顺序。

Now this is another situation showing the order of things happening in time.

这是另外一种情况，表示的是事情发展的时间顺序。

In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

只要这个社会承认他是个重要人物，一切秩序都是好的。

Both good and bad have their inevitable place in the order of things, Heraclitus believed.

赫拉克里特斯相信，在事物的秩序中，好与坏、善与恶都是不可或缺的。

But this is a military hospital and it's not up to me to challenge the order of things...-I'll nurse him. I'm happy to do it.

但这是军用医院，轮不到我越权去更改规章...-我可以照顾他。我很乐意。

But this is a military hospital and it's not up to me to challenge the order of things...

但这是家军用医院必须遵守规章制度。

So when we use the past perfect in a sentence to show the order of things that happen in the past, the first event happens in the past perfect tense.

所以当我们在句子中用过去完成时来表达过去发生的事情的顺序，第一个事件是用过去完成时态进行描述的。

The fact that Madame should die before herself perplexed her mind and seemed contrary to the order of things, and absolutely monstrous and inadmissible.

夫人应该先死的事实使她的思想感到困惑， 似乎与事情的顺序相悖， 绝对可怕和不可接受的。

Our own death becomes a matter of utter indifference, we feel honoured to be occupying such a small space in the order of things and that we will soon disappear without a trace.

我们自己的死亡也变成了完全冷漠的事情，我们感到荣幸的是自己占据了事物秩序中如此狭小的空间，我们很快就会消失得无影无踪。

Each one, a small but determined opposition to the order of things in general, is forever doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, in the wrong place and in the wrong way.

每一个，都是对事物总体秩序的微小但坚决的反对，永远在错误的时间、错误的地点和错误的方式做错误的事情。

For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.

因为伯纳是大摇大摆离开屋子的，而且砰的一声关上门时心里很得意。他认为自己是在单枪匹马向现存的秩序挑战。因为意识到自己的意义和重要性，很为激动，甚至兴高采烈。

As it is within our power to understand the order of things, so are we capable of guiding ourselves in accordance therewith; the will, powerless over circumstance, is free to determine the habits of the soul.

因为我们有能力理解事物的秩序，所以我们也有能力按照它来指导自己；意志对环境无能为力，却可以自由决定灵魂的习惯。

Let it not be concluded, that I wish to invert the order of things; I have already granted, that, from the constitution of their bodies, men seem to be designed by Providence to attain a greater degree of virtue.

不要断言我想颠倒事物的顺序；我已经承认，从他们身体的构造来看，人似乎是天意设计的，以获得更高程度的美德。