Despite your imagined freedom, you are chained always by the laws of cause and effect. You may be free to leap from a skyscraper or to refrain from eating for a week, but you are not free to escape the consequences.

해석

Despite your imagined freedom, you are chained always by the laws of cause and effect.

상상의 자유에도 불구하고 당신은 항상 인과법칙에 묶여 있다.

※ be chained by ∼에 묶여있다

※ the laws of cause and effect 인과법칙

You may be free to leap from a skyscraper or to refrain from eating for a week, but you are not free to escape the consequences.

고층건물에서 뛰어내리는 것도 자유이고 1주일간 금식하는 것도 자유지만, 당신은 마음대로 결과를 피할 수는 없다.

※ be free to BV 마음대로 ∼하다

※ skyscraper

고층건물, 마천루

※ refrain [rifréin]

억제하다; 그만하다, 삼가다, 자제하다, 참다 (forbear)

ex-1) Please refrain from smoking.

담배는 삼가해 주십시오.

ex-2) I could not refrain from tears.

나는 눈물을 금할 수가 없었다.

※ refrain from eating 금식하다