The spirit of trying to wrest from nature the facts of how it operates, wherever they may lead."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And one way people do this is they take a hint from nature and they try to construct massively distributed networks to do aspects of reasoning.

进行研究的方法之一便是,研究者们从自然界获得启示,然后试图建立起广泛分布的网络,来进行不同的推理

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ideas like this, as I say, are taken from the aesthetic and practical thinking about the nature of the work of art that one finds in Modernism.

这种观点,来自对,现代主义作品美学和实际的考虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Preschoolers who attend these so-called 'forest kindergartens' spend all their time learning outside from nature.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

What conclusions would we come to about the nature of death if we had to think about it from a secular perspective?

我们能得出关于自然死亡的什么结论,假如我们必须从,世俗的观点考虑它呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I imagined there were still secrets in Nature that the limited power of my equipment prevented me from knowing.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

And doesn't Hobbes' materialism and his sort of mechanistic theory of nature seem to detract from any inherent worth ? of the individual?

难道霍布斯的唯物主义和,他的自然的机械理论,似乎有损于,个人的价值吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

Hobbes wants this sort of dictatorship to keep people from brawling in the state of nature.

他希望建立一个类似独裁的政府,以制止人们在"自然状态"下的争斗

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The report is from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and an organization known as Traffic.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

So in those circumstances, I'm an advocate of active euthanasia. I think it is just as if you have a dog who was dying from some disease, you wouldn't say, well we just let nature take its call.

所以这种情况下，我通常会,支持安乐死，我认为,这就像是你的狗得了病,马上就要死了，你不会说，嗯，我们顺其自然吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A new study in the journal Nature has shown some hopeful results from an experimental gel that might protect women from H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The subject of the debate has been the nature of the fallen angels' political future: essentially, the question is where do we go from here? Moloch, you'll remember, is the military general who will risk absolutely anything for revenge.

辩论的主题是,堕落天使政治前途的本来面目：，关键问题在于,我们从这里要走向何方？，你们记得莫洛克吧，他是一位将军，愿不惜一切代价复仇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This nickname comes from the shiny, bright and often unreal nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says her hope comes from her belief in four things: the human brain,the human spirit, nature's strength and the energy of young people.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Rather, they emerge from contingent aspects of our biological nature.

相反，他们在我们的生物特性中,偶然呈现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;

VOA: special.2010.01.06

So, a natural product is something that is made by nature, and often natural products, whether it comes from a plant or a marine organism have some really good, useful properties. And so, one particular compound has anti-tumor properties. So, again, along this line of cancer research.

天然产物是在自然界中生成的,通常一个天然产物，不管是来自植物或者海洋生物,都有些非常好非常实用的性质，其中的一个特殊的化合物,可以治疗癌症,再一次我们又来到癌症研究上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We also carefully consider the sources of exposure of populations to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, the nature of these fields as they come from various devices, including wireless phones, and we look carefully at the physical phenomenon by which exposure to such fields may perturb biological systems and lead to cancers."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

If we look down at it and say, "It's a terrible thing that " I just derive benefits from helping other people", then that part of our nature will depreciate over time.

如果我鄙视它并说，“很可怕,我从帮助他人身上获得利益，那么本性中那一部分将随时间贬值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said there is no partisan divide in Washington on the nature of the threat now emanating from that country.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The ugly stench that starts emanating from the plant as it begins to bloom is actually an example of nature's false advertising.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We must protect them from violence, whatever its nature.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

So in sum, Kaufman's argument is this: Israel conceived of the divine in an entirely new way. Israel's God differed from the pagan gods in his essential nature. The pagan gods were natural gods.

总而言之，考夫曼的观点就是：以色列从一种全新的角度,构想了神的世界，以色列的上帝与异教的众神,在本质上完全不同，异教的众神是自然的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选