Scientists say an experimental vaccine reduced the risk of infection in human beings by thirty-one percent and was safe.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Human beings can be reduced to their movable parts much like a machine.

人类被浓缩到那些可运动的部分,就像一个机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

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The opening chapters of Leviathan, which I have only assigned a few, but the opening chapters present a kind of political physics where human beings are reduced to body and the body is further reduced to so much matter and motion.

利维坦》的开头几章，我只给你们布置了一些，开头几章呈现出,一种政治性的物理学,人类被缩小到身体,而身体继续被缩小到,大量物质和运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选