Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

That's why people are so excited about embryonic stem cells because in nature they become all the cells of the body.

这就是为什么胚胎干细胞如此让人激动,因为它的天然功能就是变成所有身体细胞

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They've become forces of nature in the U.S. Economy, in the sense that people accept these letter grades with great authority.

他们和美国经济密不可分,在这种情况下,人们笃信机构的字母评级

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

WHO chief Chan urges people not to become complacent because of the relatively mild nature of the H1N1 pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Now, he describes in pretty harsh and even grim terms what you can do to people who violate the law of nature.

他用很强硬甚至可怕的字眼描述,你可以怎样对待违反自然法的人。

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He hopes people will adapt their lifestyles according to the nature of their environment, and help them lessen the effects of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Hobbes wants this sort of dictatorship to keep people from brawling in the state of nature.

他希望建立一个类似独裁的政府,以制止人们在"自然状态"下的争斗

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When Bill McKibben wrote "The End of Nature" 20 years ago, he thought that if he simply pointed out ecological problems, people would do something about them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

People who hold constrained vision of human nature, believe that human nature cannot be changed; it's immutable-- we have certain instincts, we have certain inclinations.

认为人性受约束的观点的人，相信人性无法改变;,它是永恒的，我们有一些本能，有一些欲望。

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Eikenberry and McChrystal stressed the long-term nature of the U.S.commitment to the people of Afghanistan, long after the transition of combat operations from coalition to Afghan forces begins in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

People in the state of nature may have regular and continual contact with one another.

在自然状态中的人们可能互相,有定期并持续的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

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Well, I'm just wondering what Locke's view is on once you have a government that's already in place, whether it is possible for people who are born into that government to then leave and return to the state of nature?

我只想知道洛克对此会怎么想,一旦政府已经成立了，其中出生的人们，是否有可能,脱离它，而重新回到自然状态呢？

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So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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For most people, it seems extraordinary because people don' understand the nature of exponential function and therefore don't understand the nature of the power of one.

很多人会觉得不可思议,因为他们不懂指数函数的本质,也不懂“一“的力量。

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If we look down at it and say, "It's a terrible thing that " I just derive benefits from helping other people", then that part of our nature will depreciate over time.

如果我鄙视它并说，“很可怕,我从帮助他人身上获得利益，那么本性中那一部分将随时间贬值。

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