They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature.
他们抵接不住世界的试探，也胜不过他们的旧造天性。
Does that mean the old nature will never rear its ugly head? Does that mean you will instantly be able to resist any temptation?
这意味着旧的天性永不会抬起它丑陋的头吗？这意味着你将立即可以抗拒任何诱惑吗？
Now, academic tests seem to bear this out, but is it genetics, simple hard work or perhaps a bit of both? Now, it's the old nature versus nurture debate and our Dr.
如今学术测验似乎印证了这一点，但这究竟是基因使然还是努力得来的结果？或者两者都有一点关系？这又回到了究竟是先天使然还是后天养成这个长久以来的辩论话题。
After different thinning measures were taken in the 40-year-old nature secondary forest mainly made of oaks, fixed samples were collected to study characteristics of litters.
对近40年生以柞树为主的天然次生林采取不同抚育间伐措施后，定位研究林分凋落物的性质。
What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe.
大自然在创造这个人的时候，在他身上揉捏了这么多相互矛盾的特点，叫他面对着令他迷惑不解的冷酷人世，这是一个多么残忍的玩笑啊。
As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.
正如《自然》杂志之前所指出的那样，人们对科学奖项（无论新旧）的分配方式有一些合理的担忧。
Besides cloning a great dog, the project may contribute insight into the old question of nature vs. nurture.
除了克隆一只伟大的狗之外，该项目可能还有助于深入了解先天与后天这一古老问题。
Humans are fascinated by the source of their failings and virtues, this preoccupation inevitably leads to an old debate: whether nature or nurture molds us more.
人类对他们的缺点和优点的来源很着迷，这种专注不可避免地导致了一个多年的争论：究竟是先天还是后天更能塑造我们。
Max, another 16-year-old ambassador wants schools to organize more trips and activities that get students outside to experience the beauty of nature.
另外一位16岁的大使马克斯希望学校能够组织更多的旅行和活动，让学生们到户外去体验大自然之美。
Zalasiewicz and his colleagues believe that adopting the concept of the Anthropocene could do away with the old antithesis between man and nature.
扎拉·斯维奇和他的同事相信通过接受人类世的概念可以消除人与自然之间古老的对立关系。
Recently, physicists trying to meld gravity and quantum theory, and so explain the nature of space and time, have begun to revisit this old question.
最近，物理学家试图把引力和量子理论融为一体，由此来解释空间和时间的性质，已经开始重新研究这个老问题。
Gone is the old way of machines; come is the reborn nature of machines, a nature more alive than dead.
逝去的是旧的机器之道，到来的是重生的机器之本性，一种比逝去的更有活力的本性。
I know very well that Colonel Brandon is not old enough to make his friends yet apprehensive of losing him in the course of nature. He may live twenty years longer.
我知道，布兰登上校还没老到使他的朋友们现在就担心会合乎自然地失去他，他可能再活二十年。
Take the case of a 16-year-old girl described four years ago in Nature by neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried of the University of California at Los Angeles.
洛杉矶加州大学神经外科医生伊查克·弗莱德在其发表在《自然》杂志的论文中，就介绍过这么一个例子：弗莱德当时正在研究一名16岁癫痫少女的大脑，以寻找刺激其癫痫发作的发作根源，结果却发现了一个奇怪的现象：只要他给病人的左前叶（说到底就是一个不足1平方英寸的区域）施加电流，那个女孩就会笑出声来。
These old Indians know more of the secrets of nature than we do with all our science.
这些印第安人知道的大自然的秘密比我们用科学知识知道得还多。
When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot.
在古费拉克对他讲了这一类话以后，马吕斯整个星期都不敢见女人，无论是年轻的或年老的，他比以前任何时候都避得更厉害，尤其避免和古费拉克见面。
Beautiful young people are the whimsy of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art.
美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。
But this is Japan, whose age-old belief in nature is at least evenly matched by an unyielding faith in technology.
对自然有着由来已久的信仰，同时也对科技有着不屈的信念，这两者至少是不相上下的。这就是日本。
The Higgs is the missing piece in the Standard Model, a 40-year-old mathematical framework that links all the known particles and all of the fundamental forces of nature except for gravity.
已经有40年历史的标准模型能将所有已知的粒子和除了重力之外的所有自然力联系起来，这个数学框架中缺少的那一块便是希格斯玻色子。
"That's the old question of nature versus nurture," she replied, as we surveyed a rare breed of tamarin. "Look at it this way: nature is not pushing us in a particular direction; it's just pushing."
“这是关于先天和后天的老问题了，”当我们在考察稀有物种绒猴的时候，她回答道：“这样说吧，自然不是正在把我们推向一个方向，它只是在推。”
Not only do literary purists now complain of the evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech aficionados have become equally disdainful of the old form.
文学纯化论者抱怨屏幕上的文字稍纵即逝，而技术迷们则对旧形式文字不屑一顾。
But human nature being what it is you can be sure that people who spoke Old English swore when they hit their thumb with a hammer or when they wanted to say something rude.
不过人类本性如此，你可以确信，讲古英语的那些人也会骂娘，比如说，当他们被锤子敲到手指，或者想讲些粗话的时候。
The Old was onlyintended to bring people to a sense of hopelessness by revealing theawesome holiness of God, his hatred of sin and his judicial nature.
旧约只是意在通过显示出神是多麽的圣洁，他对罪的恨和他的公义性给人带来一种无望的感觉。
A favorite example of mine is the old feminist declaration that men “objectify” women when they respond to female beauty as nature decrees.
我最喜欢举的例子是早期男女平等主义群体的一个宣言：当男人形容女人的美丽为自然法则时，他们是“物化”了女人。
A favorite example of mine is the old feminist declaration that men “objectify” women when they respond to female beauty as nature decrees.
我最喜欢举的例子是早期男女平等主义群体的一个宣言：当男人形容女人的美丽为自然法则时，他们是“物化”了女人。
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