Buchanan believes, It's human nature to want more meat and dairy, and that will be very difficult to change.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

On Tuesday we'll turn to a more specific subject matter: hermeneutics, what hermeneutics is, how we can think about the nature of interpretation.

周二我们会讲到一个更具体的问题：,即解释学，解释学是什么，我们该如何看待解释学的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But much more important than number was the fact that this god was outside of and above nature.

比神数量上的改变更重要的是,他们认为神凌驾于自然之上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But they say this is more a reflection on the nature of the message then the writer's ability to use language correctly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He also hailed what he termed the complimentary nature of the two nations' economies,saying that both can be made more competitive through cooperation and integration.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Perhaps you are a little bit more optimistic, a little bit more utopian-- human nature can be improved.

也许你更乐观，更加乐天，人性可以改善。

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Although the attacks appear religious in nature, political analysts here say they are more symptomatic of conflicting economic and political pressures on the leading government party, the United Malays United Malays National Organization.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

And we need to get clear on the nature of identity or persistence or, more specifically, personal identity.

同时还要弄清同一性及,持存的本质,具体说来就是,个人同一性

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In the same general passage he says, a man who is by nature without a polis is either more or less than a man.

他在同一章节中指出,一个生来远离城邦,闲云野鹤的人,也就不再是一个真正的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because there are a lot more chemical-sounding things in that list of ingredients than there are things that nature would recognize or we would ordinarily recognize as food.

因为配料单里的很多东西,看上去更像化学成分,而不是我们通常认为的自然物质,或者常规意义上的食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But there is a second sense for him and, in some ways, a more important sense in which he says the polis is by nature.

但他还有另一种说法,且就某种程度看来是更重要的说法,他说城邦就是自然演变。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If we appreciate the good in our nature, in our inclinations, if we appreciate that part of our nature, it will appreciate and we'll have more of it.

如果我们欣赏人性中，欲望中好的东西，如果我们欣赏本性中那一部分，它将升值，我们将获得更多。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In order for a more or less just society to remind me of justice itself, so that I can start thinking about the nature of justice itself, I have to somehow have already been acquainted with perfect justice.

如果一个较为正义的社会,能让我想到公正本身,能让我思考公正的本质,我起码需要,对完美的正义有所认识

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