We often feel like things bleed out of us and so people will systematically overestimate the extent to which other people notice their secrets.

我们通常会觉得我们的秘密要泄露出来,所以人们心里经常会觉得,别人都发现了他们的秘密。

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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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