"The British press,I mean if there is anything to do with private lives and sexual issues in private lives then of course the British media are going to be very focused on that, because it is in their nature."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

So, the first half of the class is going to be concerned with questions about the nature of death.

所以，课程的前半部分将会集中在,死亡本质的问题上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Plato's going to argue once we understand the sort of metaphysical nature of the soul, we'll see why it couldn't be destroyed.

柏拉图会为我们证明,一旦我们理解了灵魂的哲学本质,我们就会明白为什么不能摧毁灵魂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I am going to be turning to the second passage on the sheet in which something about the nature of these systems, I think, can be made clear.

我将会将上面第二页的东西,关于符号系统的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Where else are we? Today we're going to continue the state of nature, Hobbes' most famous discovery, his most famous metaphor, his most famous concept.

我们今天讲什么呢？今天我们要继续讲,自然状态，即霍布斯最著名的发现，即他最著名的隐喻和概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In other words, my belief-- and I am going to back that up with research today and for the next semester-- is human nature is fixed.

换言之，那是我相信的观点-,我会用三个研究加以证明，从今天开始,直到下个学期-,人类本性是固有的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We're going to look largely at the nature of Northern society.

我们要大致了解下北方社会的性质

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And then we're going to spend several weeks, or at least a week or so, talking about the nature of personal identity.

然后再用几周时间,至少一周,讨论个人同一性的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But since we are only looking at enough of the problem of identity to get to the question that we really want to think about, the nature of personal identity across time, I'm not going to pursue that.

但由于我们只是,通过质的问题,来讨论,我们真正关注的问题，也就是贯穿时间的人格同一性，所以我不讨论那些。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm going to argue for the latter of what I just said, for the fact that human nature needs to be obeyed with all its flaws,with all its shortcomings, as opposed to attempting to perfect it on the psychological level.

我会谈到后者，就是说我们必须顺从于人性,接受它所有的缺陷和优点，而不是试图从心理层面上,完善它。

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