It seemed to Jefferson that the Count had gone out of his way to speak of natural wonders in America as if they were unimportant.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

It's as if his knowledge of his own conception, his own birth, his own babyhood, is a natural knowledge.

好像他很自然地知道自己是胚胎时的故事，知道自己如何出生以及自己的童年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That is, if they exist through Darwinian natural selection, ? to what extent can we ever get rid of them?

如果性别差异存在于,达尔文所说的自然选择当中，我们可以消除性别差异吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

If you're born in the United States you are by definition a natural born US citizen.

如果你出生在美国,那么你就是一个天生的美国人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

(OMITTED) He says earthquakes are natural events, but if homes were built properly, the L'Aquila quake would not have been so devastating.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

In fact, just because the world is round, you can already see if this is the Earth, to somebody that's the natural direction.

实际上,正由于地球是圆的,你们可以看到如果这是地球,对于某些人来说这才是惯常的方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Bio-trade analyst at the U.N.Conference on Trade and Development Lucas Assuncao says local communities will be more inclined to preserve their flora and fauna, if they can see economic benefits from using their natural resources in a sustainable manner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

But those human laws are only legitimate if they respect our natural rights, if they respect our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

但这些人类法律合法的唯一前提,就是尊重我们的自然权利，尊重我们不可剥夺的生命，自由和财产权。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Nation says as more and more casting directors and filmmakers choose more natural looking talent, actors and actresses will become more cautious about having plastic surgery if their goal is to survive in the highly competitive business.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

So the idea here is shooting to the left if you're right footed is the natural direction, so left here means the natural direction.

就是说如果你习惯用右脚射门,那么你从左路攻门就是自然方向,在这里左路表示自然方向

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"So we are really talking about drastic reductions, and they must come from countries which have overused their share of the global atmospheric space, which have a natural debt that must be paid, and I think if countries like India are asking for that, it is not wrong.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

A qualified purchaser has to have at least $5 million dollars or, if it's an institution, at least $25 million -that is a natural person.

一个合格购买者至少持有500万美元,如果是机构则需要至少2500万美元,...这里指的是自然人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Or if you didn't believe in God, this was just a natural right.

或许你也不信仰上帝,那么这些就是所谓的天赋人权

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the natural thing to suggest if we believe in the soul view.

如果我们相信灵魂,这个想法就很自然了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But when you remember that the subject at hand is actually in some way sex, then you can begin to associate the Lady's image of this moderate consumption of natural wealth - with some version of -- if this makes sense -- some version of an act of sexual consummation.

但是当你们想起,现在讨论的话题其实是性，然后你们可以将这位女士,关于适量消费自然财富的形象,与一些版本--如果那有意义-,一些版本关于性圆满的行为联系起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now if you were not born in the United States, you may still be, under definition, a natural born US citizen if you're born outside this United States, both of your parents are citizens of the United States and at least one parent has lived in the United States.

现在如果你不是出生在美国，你可能,即使你出生在美国以外的地方,只要你的父母都是美国公民,而且至少一个居住在美国,那么按照定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That was the natural thing to do given the character of life, which was based upon farming, if you leave you lose your farm, and based upon the difficulty of transportation.

生活的意义就是定居一处,种田养家,离开了这片土地,就失去了食物的来源,另外,古时的交通非常落后

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If the right to private property is natural, not conventional, if it's something that we acquire even before we agree to government, How does that right constrain what a legitimate government can do?

如果私有财产是与生俱来的，而非约定俗成，如果这是在我们同意组建政府前就拥有的，这个权利又如何能限制合法政府的行为呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选