The animals on the islands influenced British nature scientist Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution by natural selection.

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We also, therefore, have no sense that God is imminent in nature or tied to natural substances or phenomena.

我们也不知道自然中神灵将要诞生,或者是与某些自然物质及自然现象有关。

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That is to say, we no longer have the kind of mind which flourishes in nature, in a natural environment.

也就是说，我们不再有一种思维,它根植于自然，自然环境中。

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Yet Aristotle's conception of our political nature seems to require standards of justice that are natural or right for us.

但亚里士多德对我们政治天性的概念,似乎需要正义的标准,且那对我们是自然或正确的法治预设。

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Milton acknowledges that the course he's chosen for himself may not be a natural one: Nature herself pushes a young man to begin a family and to seek credible employment .

弥尔顿知道他选择了一条,不那么正常的人生道路：,天性使得一个年轻人去结婚,去找一份可靠的工作。

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He transcended nature, and he wasn't known through nature or natural phenomena.

他超越了自然,他不是通晓自然和自然现象。

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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。

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The only constraint given by the law of nature is that the rights we have, the natural rights we have we can't give up nor can we take them from somebody else.

自然法唯一制约的,是我们拥有的这些自然权利,我们不能放弃，也不能剥夺他人的。

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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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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。

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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。

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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？

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She doesn't spend her bodily wealth and fulfill the terms of nature's loan And so for Comus, the Lady is hoarding the natural asset of her physical beauty.

她不花费自己的身体财富和不履行自然的贷款条件,对于Comus来说，小姐在囤积自然给她的美貌资产。

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