He said,"The Count de Buffon believes that nature belittles her productions on this side of the Atlantic."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

But it was easy to do because they were so knowledgeable now of focusing on nature.

但这其实很容易,因为他们已经学会如何欣赏自然。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

These sources preserve different traditions on the number and the nature of the plagues, as well as the principal actors in the drama: God, Moses, Aaron.

这些素材都保留了不同的风格,不同瘟疫的数量，内容,关于三个主角，上帝，摩西，主角的描述也不相同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Mister Mirenda says orchids growing in nature depend completely on their environment to survive.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

And in many ways, we can understand human intellectual history just based on this idea: ? should we accept human nature?

在很多方面，我们能理解人类智力发展历史,仅仅基于这个观点：,应不应该接受人类本性？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Nature plants the seeds through birds or animals on top of the soil.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A report on the genome appeared last week in the journal Nature.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

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

Jenn Savedge's blog appears on the Mother Nature Network.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

And on specific holidays that deal with the themes of nature in the fall.

在秋天有一些特定的节日,都是有关自然的主题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He said there is no partisan divide in Washington on the nature of the threat now emanating from that country.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The track "Ebb and Flow." featuring Tia's friend and mentor Christian McBride on bass, taps into her philosophical nature.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

So you are saying that Nicola can go back into the state of nature if she wants to but she can't drive on Mass. Ave.?

你是说,只要妮可拉愿意，她可以回到自然状态,但她从此不能在麻省的路上开车了？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And developers,logging companies, and strip-mine operators on the edge of the swamp can easily upset the delicate balance of nature in the area.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.

语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

F = ma is universally true, independent of the nature of the force acting on a body.

= ma 是一条普适定律,与作用在物体上的力的属性无关

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But he made clear it is regional in nature - designed to deal with the threat posed by militants and extremists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Stone Offerings" The book,published by Lightpoint Press, offers a new take on the Incan ruins the enduring strength with lessons about and beauty of a city built in harmony with nature.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

If you think about Alexander Pope, for example, or even Samuel Johnson, as they reflect on literature and why it's important and what the nature of literature is, they aren't concerned about interpretation.

比如，亚历山大，蒲柏，或塞缪尔，约翰逊，他们思考文学,及其重要性时，并不关心文学的解读问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

You'd rather be in the state of nature, at least on April 15th.

所以至少在四月十五日，你宁愿处于自然状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"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

To use some philosophical jargon, the nature of identity seems like it should depend only on intrinsic facts about me or perhaps relational facts about the relations between my stages.

用哲学术语来说，身份的本质似乎应该只取决于关于我的内在事实,或是关于我在两个时期关系的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is this Socrates who is brought up on charges of corruption and impiety yet none of this quite answers the question of what is the nature of Socrates' crime.

这是被控腐化,与亵渎神明的苏格拉底,但这都未能完整地回答,苏格拉底所背罪名的本质究竟为何。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选