Secondly, as a technical term of music, it extends the idea of nature and society and becomes a standard of music judgment.

二作为音乐术语，它是自然观和社会观的延伸，成为衡量音乐的标准；

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He risked his health and his reputation to advance the idea that we are not over nature but a part of it.

他冒着牺牲健康和名誉的危险提出了这一思想，即我们不是超越于自然的，而只是它的一部分。

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However, when early humans first began to reflect on the nature of things around them, they discovered that they needed an idea of number simply to keep their thoughts in order.

然而，当早期的人类第一次开始反思周围事物的本质，他们发现只是为了让思维保持有序也需要有数字的概念。

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One of the reasons this understanding seems so problematic is the idea that we don't appeal to the authority of an author in making our mind about the nature of a given field of discourse.

这种理解之所以看起来有问题,一个原因就是我们不会为了弄清一个特定领域话语的本质,去诉求作者的权威。

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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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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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He questions why the idea of human nature has become a taboo subject, exploring "hot buttons" like violence, gender and aggression.

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Derek Gottfrid, the company's vice president of product who currently oversees revenue, said that the idea is to use the visual nature of Tumblr to let brands create campaigns that emphasize pictures, video and text.

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The idea is to anticipate the nature of many of the queries, or more readily address needs.

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