She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

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And do not be tempted to say, "Isn't it wonderful that the way nature works is that babies are cute?

不要受诱惑做某事，孩子可爱，是不是大自然的杰作？

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Milton acknowledges that the course he's chosen for himself may not be a natural one: Nature herself pushes a young man to begin a family and to seek credible employment .

弥尔顿知道他选择了一条,不那么正常的人生道路：,天性使得一个年轻人去结婚,去找一份可靠的工作。

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If you are not allowed to see other pieces of nature, it's a profound encounter and so beautiful.

但当你看不到其他的生物时，这种际遇就是那么深刻而美妙。

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He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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It is fear, not reason, that leads us to abandon the state of nature and sue for peace.

与理性不同，恐惧让我们放弃自然状态,转而去寻求和平。

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But the interaction between God and humans, he says, happens not through nature but through history.

但是上帝和人类的相互作用，通过历史而不是自然而产生。

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And if not, what does that imply about the nature of death?

如果没有，那么死亡的本质暗示了什么？

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Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

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For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

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So what actually turns out the reality is that h e 2 does exist, but it exists as the weakest chemical bond known, and it wasn't, in fact, even found to exist until 1993, so I can assure you this is not a bond that you see very often in nature, and it is a very, very weak bond.

实际上He2键是存在的，但它是目前所知的最弱的键，直到1993年它才被发现，所以我可以向你们保证在,自然界你们不可能经常看到它，它是种非常非常弱得键。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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And again, this is not simply a brute fact of nature.

这不简单是,一个自然事实。

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He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

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If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。

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It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

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Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

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