Two reports by the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC and the Office of the U.N.High Commissioner for Human Rights describe some particularly heinous crimes committed by rebel groups and Congolese armed forces.

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The swan is really only a force, and Yeats's concern is rather with the human experience of that force, which is, again, another manifestation of "terrible beauty."

这天鹅只是一种力量，而叶芝所关注的是,人类对此力量的感受，而这又是，一次，惊人之美，的表现“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

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