Most biologists now accept that the tree is not a fact of nature - it is something we impose on nature in an attempt to make the task of understanding it more tractable.

现在大多数生物学家都同意，这棵树不是自然生长的——这是人类试图使理解大自然这件差事更易驾驭而强加给自然界的有价值的事物。

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Maybe it won't fix droughts on Earth but understanding the laws of nature nonetheless gives us a terrestrial tool kit.

也许并不能籍此解决地球的干旱问题，但不管怎样，了解了自然规律都会让我们地球人得到一个工具包的。

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It is now accepted that the tree of life is something we impose on nature in an attempt to make the task of understanding it more tractable.

现在大家认为，生命之树是人类试图使理解大自然这件差事更易驾驭而强加给自然界的有价值的事物。

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Our capacity for meaningful change is contingent on understanding the nature of the problem.

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He would not have merrily hopped on the same-sex marriage bandwagon without first carefully considering how the issue fit with his understanding of the laws of nature and nature's God, of the first things and first principles that conservatives of Reagan's generation spent years discussing at great length in their books and publications and conferences.

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Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.

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