"Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth," ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.
维多利亚时代流传着一则箴言：“造物主赋予人类嘴唇以遮掩牙齿”。这暗示了在严格意义上的牙科学诞生之前，口腔的卫生状况往往非常糟糕。
Significant advances have been made in the understanding of the biological and chemical nature of olfaction, but many fundamental questions have yet to be answered.
在理解嗅觉的生物学和化学性质方面已经有了重大进展，但许多基本问题仍有待回答。
At the University of Sussex, you are introduced to the nature and grammar of English in all its aspects.
在苏塞克斯大学，你会接触到英语的本质和语法的各个方面。
In her work, she revealed a side of nature so exotic, dramatic and valuable to Europeans of the time that she received much acclaim.
她的作品向当时的欧洲人揭示了自然界充满异国情调、富有戏剧性和价值的一面，因此她获得了很多赞誉。
You can get a good idea of how his life experiences manifest themselves in his theories of beauty, specifically the way he looked towards nature as the origin of what we find beautiful.
你可以很好地明白他的人生经历是如何在他的美学理论中体现出来的，特别是他将自然视为美的起源的方式。
Unfortunately, it is in the nature of the archaeological evidence, which is almost invariable only a sample of what once existed, that such figures will always be elusive.
不幸的是，从考古学证据的性质来看，这类人物总是难以捉摸的，因为考古学证据几乎是一成不变的，只是曾经存在过的东西的一种样品。
The purpose of scientists was basically to offer entertainment to fashionable society, and academicians delighted in amazing audiences with demonstrations of the universal laws of nature.
科学家们的主要目的是为上流社会提供娱乐，而学者们则更乐于向观众展示大自然的普遍规律，让他们为之惊叹。
The topic of the nature of skill—and the differences between beginners and experts—has been one of considerable discussion in cognitive science and philosophy.
技能的本质——以及初学者和专家之间的差异——一直是认知科学和哲学领域的重要讨论话题之一。
In the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like.
在尝试这样做的过程中，他们产生了很多的想法，关于问题的本质和潜在解决方案会是怎样的。
However, when early humans first began to reflect on the nature of things around them, they discovered that they needed an idea of number simply to keep their thoughts in order.
然而，当早期的人类第一次开始反思周围事物的本质，他们发现只是为了让思维保持有序也需要有数字的概念。
Bone growth in reptiles is periodic in nature, producing a series of concentric rings in the bone, not unlike the growth rings of a tree.
爬行动物的骨骼生长在本质上是周期性的，在骨头上产生一系列的同心圆，就像树木的年轮一样。
Maybe this is consistent with a change in the constants, but this would be the very first, and it would just change our view of the laws of nature.
也许这与常数变化相一致，但这是第一次，它将会改变我们对自然规律的看法。
We want to make closer contact with music in order to learn more of its nature; thus we can range more broadly and freely in the areas of musical style, form, and expression.
我们想与音乐保持更紧密的联系，以便更多地了解音乐的本质；因此，我们可以在音乐风格、形式和表达方式上更加广泛自由地进行选择。
These were some of the words that Nature readers used to describe their experience of art-science collaborations in a series of articles on partnerships between artists and researchers.
在《自然》杂志刊登的艺术家和研究人员之间合作关系的系列文章中，读者用这些词来描述艺术与科学交融之感。
Nature is indeed like a riddle, some areas of which are beyond the reach of science and technology, at least in the foreseeable future.
大自然确实像一个谜，其中一些领域是科学技术无法触及的，至少在可预见的未来是这样。
The active discipline of heightening one's perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high.
他心目中的高层次应该是这样一种积极的自律，即强调一个人对自然界永恒之物的感悟。
Of course, in the nature of things, and with a lot of drinking going on, people failed to notice.
当然了，事出必然，酒酣之间人们没有注意到。
Unfortunately, despite 2 1/2 years in the making, "The Heart of the Matter" never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.
不幸的是，尽管花了两年半的时间研究，“核心问题”报告从来没有深入到问题的核心：我们一流的学院和大学自由教育狭隘的本质。
Unfortunately, despite 2 1/2 years in the making, "The Heart of the Matter" never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.
不幸的是，尽管花了两年半的时间研究，“核心问题”报告从来没有深入到问题的核心：我们一流的学院和大学自由教育狭隘的本质。
In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature", the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.
哲学家大卫·休谟在1757年的一篇文章中谈到，因为人类的审美具有共同性，所以一些艺术作品的价值可能是永恒的。
Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms.
丘陵和山脉通常被认为是永恒的象征，成功抵御着自然的破坏力量，但其实它们从地质学角度讲往往是相对短暂的。
Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.
南非开普敦大学的生物学家吉尔·法兰特表示，对于那些想要在无法预测降雨量的地区种植作物的人，大自然会给出很多答案。
Now, in addition to preparation of the reporter and competence of the news source, there is one more important ingredient in successful news coverage, that is the nature of the questions asked.
现在，除了记者的准备工作和新闻来源的竞争力，成功的新闻报道还有一个重要的因素，那就是所提问题的性质。
The nineteenth century saw considerable interest in the nature of genius, and produced not a few studies of famous prodigies.
十九世纪，人们对天才的本质产生了浓厚的兴趣，对著名的天才进行了不少研究。
However, the nature of this very diversity makes travel and tourism ideal vehicles for economic development in a wide variety of countries, regions or communities.
然而，正是这种多样性的性质使旅游业成为许多国家、区域或社区经济发展的理想工具。
A lot of impressionist artists painted everyday scenes, like people on the streets and in cafes, lots of nature scenes, especially landscapes.
很多印象派画家画日常生活场景，比如街上和咖啡馆里的人，还画很多自然场景，尤其是风景。
Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lies in the influence of evolutionary thinking.
对人性概念怀疑的另一个原因可能在于进化思维的影响。
Human bias is inevitable, but another source of bias in the representation of history has to do with the transitory nature of the materials themselves.
人类的偏见是在所难免的，但在历史的表现中，偏见的另一种来源与材料本身的短暂性有关。
I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature.
我认为女性接触的这些不同的事物往往是慢性的或反复的。
As the most famous animal of China, the giant panda appears in the logo of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).
作为中国最著名的动物，大熊猫出现在世界自然基金会（WWF）的标志上。
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