Paul Pillar at Georgetown University says if it is not war, then the Obama administration needs to spell out the exact nature of the struggle.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

So I want to ask you now, and be brave and speak out, in your reading of the story did anything of that nature strike you?

我希望大家能勇敢的说出来，在你们阅读中有没有发现什么奇怪的地方？

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Yeah, I've been able to just figure out just the nature of the language.

我曾经研究过语言的本质。

英语为什么这么难呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

They don't necessarily represent in a systematic fashion Plato's worked out axiomatic views about the nature of philosophy.

它们不一定是很系统的,不是说柏拉图已经,提出了一套系统的哲学自然理论

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He sets out to give a deliberately and thoroughly materialistic and non-teleological physics of human nature.

他阐明了一种,谨慎而彻底的唯物主义的,非目的论的人性的物理。

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And developmental psychologists use many ingenious methods to try to pull these apart and try to figure out what are the basic components of human nature.

发展心理学家们使用了许多巧妙的方法,试图将这些因素分开,试图找出人性的基本成分,究竟是什么

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Whatever he removes out of the state that nature has provided, " and left it in, he has mixed his labor with, and joined it to something that is his own, " and thereby makes it his property."

所以只要他使任何东西脱离自然所提供的状态，《政府论》第五章，“论财产“,脱离其现有状态，他就已经掺进他的劳动，在这上面施加了他自己所有的某些东西，因而，使它成为他的财产“

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How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?

我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态，过上文明的生活呢？

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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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