But nature was cruel. By the nineteen twenties, erosion from winds and weather had removed a large part of the land.
VOA: special.2009.10.06
She doesn't know any language, She doesn't know what I would be talking about by the nature of love.
它没有语言,它不知道我会谈论,爱的天性。
Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.
因为如果你考虑一下,自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质,生后即是死。
The animals on the islands influenced British nature scientist Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution by natural selection.
VOA: special.2009.12.16
But just what was the nature of the revolution ? contemplated by our founder, Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science?
但什么样的革命,本质是我们这位创始人所思索,这位现代政治科学的创始人?
Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.
VOA: special.2010.07.20
You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."
你也许会想,这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“
(Youtube video: Catch the Moment) Many of her works are influenced by nature,trees,and flowers.
VOA: special.2009.11.04
By building certain political institutions that would channel the flawed, imperfect human nature toward the good.
通过建立某种政治机构,引导有缺陷的,不完美的人性向好的方面发展。
The list is kept by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
VOA: special.2010.04.20
In the same general passage he says, a man who is by nature without a polis is either more or less than a man.
他在同一章节中指出,一个生来远离城邦,闲云野鹤的人,也就不再是一个真正的人
They are organized by different subjects such as Nature,Leisure,Industry,and the City.
VOA: special.2009.03.23
John Locke accounted for the rise of private property from the state of nature by a chain of reasoning very similar to the one that Nozick and the libertarians use.
洛克从自然状态角度,解释了私有财产的兴起,他的推理思路,和诺齐克等自由主义者的思路相似。
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
VOA: special.2009.01.19
Of course, we have to also know how to plug in the numbers so we can pass all the tests, but it's good to understand the nature of the edifice set up by Newton.
当然,我们首先要知道怎么代数字,这样我们考试才能过关,但是如果能理解,牛顿的这一伟大杰作的本质就更好了
"Obviously missile launches of that nature are unhelpful and potentially destabilizing, and are frowned upon by us and others in the region,".
VOA: standard.2009.10.18
Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.
语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究
The open nature of the Internet and its use by governments and business make it a rich target for an enemy attacks.
VOA: standard.2009.08.11
It's determined by the laws of nature that the effect that follows will follow from that cause.
自然法则决定了,这个结果必然跟随这个原因产生
Last December in Copenhagen, the international community took a first step towards making society pay for the services provided by nature for free.
VOA: standard.2010.02.24
He's interested in the way in which a reader can come to terms with a meaning conveyed by a text, and that much, as I say, despite the profoundly different nature of their projects, Wimsatt and Gadamer have in common.
他只关注读者如何明白,文章的意思,而这也就是,我所说的,文萨特和葛达玛的共同之处,即是他俩在某些领域有本质上的差别。
She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.
VOA: standard.2010.02.24
All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.
他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标,必需要住在城邦之中。
But he made clear it is regional in nature - designed to deal with the threat posed by militants and extremists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.
VOA: standard.2009.03.26
Who or what did he think was the slave by nature?
谁或什么是他所认为的天生奴隶?
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."
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.
这响应了,亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变,城市永远不能是一座万国之城。
The only constraint given by the law of nature is that the rights we have, the natural rights we have we can't give up nor can we take them from somebody else.
自然法唯一制约的,是我们拥有的这些自然权利,我们不能放弃,也不能剥夺他人的。
Given that we're going to die, this fact seeps back in and poisons the nature of life or perhaps poisons the nature of the whole, life followed by death, so that on balance the whole thing's negative.
已知我们会死,这个事实渗透到并使毒害生命的本质,或者也许毒害所有事的本质,生后即是死,所以总的来说,所有的事都是消极的。
The sovereign does not exist by nature but rather, Hobbes tells us again, the sovereignty is the product of art or science.
霍布斯又告诉我们说,国家不是生来就有的,而主权也只是科学和艺术的产物罢了。
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