Smith took "The Strong Horse," the title of his book, from a quote by Osama bin Laden, who said,"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse."

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In this description of the moderate and temperate enjoyment of nature, the Lady is giving us something like a Puritan economic theory.

在关于适度和有节制的享乐的描述中，这位女士给我们提出了类似清教徒的有利可图理论。

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It looks like a leaf. It is nature in its aesthetic form as imitation of itself, life as an imitation of life.

它看起来像一片树叶，它是艺术,化的自然，模仿着它自己，用生命模仿生命。

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Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

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Now here we have a situation where you have a completely concocted food, you have something like Twinkies to begin with, not something found in nature.

面对的全是人工调制食品,而非纯天然食品,以夹馅面包为例

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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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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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For Comus, nature is just like the harsh master who had given each of his servants a portion of money and who expects those coins, who expects those talents, to be put to use.

对于Comus来说，大自然就像是一个令人不悦的主人,他给了他每个仆人一部分金钱,并希望这些金钱和才能都可以得到充分利用。

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Just as Enkidu gains wisdom and becomes like a god and loses his oneness with nature, so Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil are said to have become like gods and they also lose their harmonious relationship with nature.

就像Enkidu得到智慧，变得有神性，却失掉,与自然的和谐，亚当和夏娃在吃了智慧果以后,也变得具有神性,同时也失掉了与自然的和谐关系。

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It can signify battle, but Hobbes says it can also signify the will to contend, simply the desire or the will to engage in conflict, " renders something like a state of nature.

这可以表示为斗争，但霍布斯说这同样可以表示竞争的意志，仅仅就是参与冲突的欲望或愿望，这些构成了“自然状态。

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