Yet we behave as if we do own the world, as if nature was there just for us.

这一章接着说：天下神器，不可为也。然而我们当今的行为就好像我们是这世界的主人，自然界随便归我所用。

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It's almost as if nature knew that some day archaeologists would have to find fossils which appear to be billions of years old to stay in business.

那几乎就像自然知道有一天考古学家会化石的发现，这似乎是数十亿百年基业。

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We construct city skylines in hurricane alleys and neighborhoods on top of fault lines — as if nature will be cowed by our audacity and leave us be.

我们在飓风区修建摩天大楼，与地质断裂带为邻——仿佛自然会臣服于我们的大胆任由我们所为。

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t seems as if nature had saved all her ruggedness to pile it up in this colossal form of the Guadalupe Peak ...

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It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

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Scattered around the Laventura sat empty businesses, their doors padlocked, vines crawling over them, as if to reclaim them for nature, while on the street loitered a fleet of people pushing grocery carts.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

And if we set aside the pay-as-you-go nature of Medicare and pretend it really is an insurance program, your payroll tax contributions will end up covering only about one third of your personal tax-financed spending over your lifetime.

FORBES: U.S. Treasury to President Obama: Medicare's Current Policy 'Is Unsustainable'

What concerned me most I think was the nature of our economy and how the American Dream seemed as if it was slipping away for too many people.

WHITEHOUSE: Discussing the Economy in Des Moines