This is the natural condition, the state of nature, the state of war that Hobbes attributes to, again, the fundamental fact of human nature.

这是自然的状态，霍布斯把战争状态归因于，人类的基本天性。

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If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

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But it sure reflects the fact that we've got fundamental optimism about what can be created.

但是这必定反映出我们已经有了,创造的基本动力。

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The claim that Freud would make is that the woman's discovery that she lacks the penis plays a fundamental role later on determining her allegiances in life and in fact her own sexual preferences and interests.

弗洛伊德会认为,女性发现其身体缺少阴茎的这件事,会在决定其日后的生活忠诚度,及自身的性取向和性偏好中,起到重要的作用。

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Still, I take it--I gather--here's what I'm told-- that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics says that, despite what many of us might've otherwise believed, the fundamental laws of physics are not, in fact, deterministic.

别人告诉了我这么一个例子,量子力学的正统理论认为,尽管有很多人可能不相信,物理学的基本定律事实上也不是确定性的

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