"If you look at nature, and I give an example in your own country, if you look to the Rocky Mountains, you find trees all over the mountains.

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Is it part of your nature to be good or bad or is it largely due to the situation that you fall in?

人性究竟是善还是恶,或者说是否应当更多地归因于所处的环境

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The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

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In what sense, we could ask ourselves and I think you probably will be asking in your sections, ? in what sense is the city by nature?

就何种意义而言，我们能自问,且我想你们也应该,会在你们的时段讨论，就何种意义而言，城市是自然演变的存在？

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You want to withdraw your consent and return to the state of nature.

想收回你的同意，转而回到自然状态。

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So if you learn how to look at films and if you are a real film buff, even bad movies will be useful, because they will give you things to develop your sensitivity toward the nature of film itself.

所以如果你们可以学会如何看电影,如果你们真的对电影了如指掌，即使是不好的电影也会很有用，因为,它会培养你对,电影本质的敏感程度。

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So I want to ask you now, and be brave and speak out, in your reading of the story did anything of that nature strike you?

我希望大家能勇敢的说出来，在你们阅读中有没有发现什么奇怪的地方？

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I just say that in passing to call your attention to it as a risk that's involved in our engagement with a hermeneutic project of the nature of Gadamer's.

我这样说只是为了提醒你们,研究有伽达默尔的诠释学理论时,可能有这样的风险。

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What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

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And not only can you punish with death people who come after you seeking to take your life, you can also punish a thief who tries to steal your goods because that also counts as aggression against the law of nature.

不仅可以处死那些,跟踪你想谋害你的人，还可以惩罚想偷你东西的小偷,因为那也算侵犯了自然法。

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