He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.
VOA: special.2009.06.05
And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.
我想,有一段时间里,这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。
When it comes to differences of human rights and religious practices, so Claims and Conflict, people in different disciplines say "We need stronger laws, we need this, we need that."
当说到人权问题和宗教实践,在各国的不同时,也就是所谓的“冲突中的观点“,持有不同观点的人都会说,“我们需要更完备的法律,需要这个,需要那个“
Human-rights groups say at least 157 people were killed and hundreds injured when soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
VOA: standard.2009.10.28
What you find when you actually open up Pynchon's novels is an incredibly rich world of human detritus, of history.
当你真正看Pynchon的书,你能够发现一个难以置信的。
"Often the victims of human trafficking are not aware when they cross our borders that they are about to be enslaved."
VOA: standard.2010.07.23
So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.
在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事,我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。
Not exactly. When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it's almost impossible to stop.
VOA: standard.other
You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.
当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧
President Obama did not use the word "democracy" when speaking about Afghanistan on Friday, although he spoke of such democratic principles as elections and human rights.
VOA: standard.2009.03.27
So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"
所以让我们问问自己,当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“
Some human rights groups and Roma leaders say the attacks come at a time when right-wing extremists are searching for scapegoats for Hungary's current economic crisis.
VOA: standard.2009.08.22
When you look at this theory, you realize that it suggests a very important technology for improving human welfare and by spreading risks.
这一理论,提出了一个重要的技术,即可以通过分散风险,提高收益。
"When you read a book, you are in direct contact with the mind of another human being, without the distraction of their physical presence, of their image,of their tics .
VOA: standard.2010.02.09
When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.
勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力
And our psychological immune system strengthens when we give ourselves the permission to be human.
我们的心理免疫系统会加强,当我们准许自己为人时。
One, developing ways to understand how humans work better, how human physiology operates, and second, developing new approaches for replacing function in people when they're sick.
一,开发新方法更好的了解身体的运作,以及生理过程是怎样发生的,二,当人机体发生病变时,找到方法替代病变器官的功能
When we find people challenging it, I think they have the bulk of time and human experience on their side when they say you guys got it wrong.
当我们发现有人挑战这一定律时,我只能说他们完全是在白费力气,当他们说道 你们这些家伙是错的
And you remember, we considered some examples of cost-benefit analysis, but a lot of people were unhappy with cost-benefit analysis when it came to placing dollar value on human life.
我们还思考了些成本效益分析的例子,但许多人并不赞同,成本效益分析用金钱来衡量人的生命。
This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.
这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人,我们要变成完全的人,当我们被牵扯到政治生活中,我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。
It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.
它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革
We have very different understandings of what we mean about the inherent human dignity when we bring in our, I mean, in my sense, particularly religious understandings.
使我们产生了各种不同的理解,比如对人类固有尊严含义的不同理解,在我看来,尤其是我们加入自己的,宗教理解时。
And when we begin to speak about the human being and human dignity, people with religious identification quickly find themselves talking about concepts that have an element of sacred to them.
当我们开始谈论人类,和人的尊严,信仰宗教的人,很快会发现自己在谈论那些,对他们有着神圣意义的概念。
And now when I go into a lecture, the nervousness-- because I give myself the permission to be human-- goes away within as little as three hours into the lecture.
现在当我去上课时,紧张感-,因为我准许自己为人-,在课堂进行三小时后会消失。
On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.
一方面,乐观主义者可能说,“就算我们把另外的相互影响,就算把负面的相互影响算进去,人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。
Now that's going to be important when we talk about making human gene - making human proteins inside alternate hosts like bacteria, that they can't do all the things that your cells can do.
这一步骤在我们谈到,利用像细菌那样的宿主,来生成人类蛋白时非常重要,因为细菌并不具备人类细胞的全部功能
This is one aspect of Biomedical Engineering, developing tools that allow you to understand how human's function and what's wrong when they have disease and so some of the things we've talked about have that category.
这是生物医学工程研究的一个方向,即设计那些能够让人们了解,人体的运转方式的工具,以及能够诊断疾病的工具,我们刚才讲过的一些东西就属于这类
That's when we stop giving ourselves the permission to be human, and we pay a price, in terms of our energy levels, of our wellbeing, of our happiness, of our creativity, and ultimately also our success.
那时我们停止准许自己为人,为此我们付出代价,包括精力水平,幸福感,快乐感,创造力,最终以成就大小作为代价。
Immanuel Kant described very well the problem with skepticism when he wrote "Skepticism is a resting place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings, but it is no dwelling place for permanent settlement."
康德曾很贴切地描述了怀疑论的不足,他写道,怀疑论是人类理性暂时休憩的场所,是理性自省,以伺将来做出正确抉择的地方,但绝非理性的永久定居地“
And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.
现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐,幸福,长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。
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