Student: Wouldn't natural selection favor the people ? who learn all these things and then practically try to apply them?

学生：自然选择会不会垂青,学习并践行这些知识的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If nature is a norm, it does not, again, mandate or incline us to peace, friendship and solidarity with others.

如果自然是一个准则，它不会，指引我们向和平，友爱,和与别人的团结。

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Everybody knows it, and I'm certainly not thinking I'm not saying to myself, "Oh, not yellow, not green."

这很自然，任何人,你不会想，嗯，这不是绿的也不是黄的“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We're going to ask questions nobody would have otherwise thought to ask, where the common man wouldn't address, and this is, of course, standard in all sciences.

我们打算问问题,每人认为应该问，普通人不会问，这当然，是所有自然科学的标准。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Obviously with this sort of partitioning of behavior, and activities, and effort, there's not a lot of time leftover for leisure, for development of new technologies and things like this.

显然,采用这样一种,行为,活动及精力的分配方式,自然不会剩下很多时间,用来娱乐,发展技术和改革创新

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

God is not known through natural manifestations.

上帝不会在自然中现出真身。

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And isn't that clear already from their colors, the material that they're made of Gold and silver, these colors marked them as fashioned, precious objects, inorganic, and in all these ways beyond time and nature, growth or decay.

从它们的颜色上很容易知道，制作它们的材料,金银说明它们是,特制的珍贵的物件，非自然生长的，这些都是超越时间自然,不会生长或衰亡。

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The sign is not linked to the natural world by any natural means, and the sign is not linked to other signs by any natural means.

符号不会自然地，和自然世界产生联系。

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States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Wouldn't natural selection favor the people who take introductory psychology, come to my Valentine's Day lecture, listen carefully to the big three and the more interesting four, ? and then go out there and put them into practice?

自然选择会不会青睐,那些学习心理学导论，在情人节来听我讲座，专心致志听我讲影响吸引力的三大因素,和四个有趣因素，然后在生活中应用这些知识的人？

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If we defined food differently: that it's something that nurtures the body, something found in nature, something that doesn't harm the environment-- there are a number of criteria one can apply to define a food-- then we might come up with a different definition than this, but this is the way the nutrition field generally looks at it.

如果我们给出不同的定义,滋养身体的物质,在自然界找到的物质,不会威胁到身体的物质,有很多标准可以拿出来定义食物,我们也许可以就此重新进行定义,但这就是营养学看待食物的方式

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