And so he explains to the master: I knew thou was't an hard man which reapest where thou sowedst not and gatherest where thou strawest not.

他对主人解释：,我知道你不是个努力的人,你收获不是你播种的。

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Because the servant had not been willing to spend the only talent that he had been given, the master instructs him to give his one and only talent to the man who now has ten.

因为这个仆人不愿意适用他获得的唯一,的金币，主人命令他把这个,唯一的金币给了那个已经有十个金币的人。

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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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