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。

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We can see how to make it produce like effects.

我们知道怎样使它产生类似的结果。

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I am not convinced that the poem's radical and most subversive and most exquisite rhetorical effects, these amazing similes, present us with anything like a simple and unambiguous religious message.

我并不认为诗中最极端最颠覆,即那些令人惊叹的比喻，给我们提供了,非常简单明了的宗教寓意。

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Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

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Reason is not about simple observation, but rather, it is about making, production, or as he says, " "making like consequences produce the desired effects."

理性并不是单纯的观察，它是创造，制造，像他说的，“使它产生我们想要的结果“

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