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 sort of an innocent primitive, he appears unclothed he lives a free, peaceful life in harmony with the animals, with nature and the beasts, he races across the steppes with the gazelles.

他是一个未开化的野人，出现时身无寸缕,生活随性，和动物与自然和平相处,有时候甚至和羚羊赛跑，穿过草原。

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And this law of nature constrains what we can do even though we are free, even though we are in the state of nature.

这种自然法制约着我们的行为,即便我们是自由的，即便是在自然状态下。

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If slavery is natural, and if nature intends to distinguish the slave from the unfree, the free from the unfree, ? how can nature miss the mark?

如果奴役是自然的演变，而自然倾向于,将奴隶从不自由的人中区别出来，将自由从不自由中区别出来，自然如何会偏离正轨？

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Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

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I mean a blanket term, a guiding concept, a transcendental signified, something that explains the nature of the structure and something also, as Derrida says, which allows for limited free play within the structure; but at the same time the structure has this kind of boundary nature.

是一个概括性称呼，一个引领概念，一个超验所指，它解释了这个结构的内涵，正如德里达所说，它允许在结构内有限的自由游戏;,但同时这个结构也有限性。

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Even though I am free, I'm not free to violate the law of nature.

即使我是自由的，我也不能随意违背自然法。

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In a stunning admission, he says, listen to this, that "while nature may intend to distinguish the free man from the slave," he says, "the opposite often results.

听听这一段，精彩的坦承谈话，他说：，“虽然自然可能倾向于,将自由人从奴隶中区别出来，但常是事与愿违。

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Under the law of nature, I'm not free to take somebody else's life or liberty or property, nor am I free to take my own life or liberty or property.

根据自然法，我不能随意剥夺他人的生命，自由或财产，也不能随意剥夺自己的生命，自由或财产。

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In fact, we can never be fully free of the fear and of the anxiety and uncertainty of the state of nature, even within to some degree of fully constituted civil society.

实际上，我们完全可以,脱离恐惧焦虑和,对自然状态的不确定,甚至在一定程度上可以摆脱完全文明的社会。

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We are free and equal in the state of nature he makes the point that there is a difference between a state of liberty and a state of license.

每个人在自然状态下都是自由而平等的,他同时指出，自由状态,和放纵状态是有区别的。

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So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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