These latest findings support the thesis that sexuality is determined by nature rather than choice.

这些最新发现证实了性取向取决于自然而不是选择这一论点。

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The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture.

人的学习能力部分是先天的，部分是后天培育的。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He is by nature a contrarian.

他本质上就是个叛逆的人。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Rockman often shows nature as defined by a struggle for survival with a never-ending repetition of life and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

And never mind, really, that millions of dollars in orders would be booked and hard-and-fast opinions formed (and passed along to consumers) on what in most businesses would be regarded as dangerously sketchy information, open to many shades of manipulation and absolutely certain--by its nature--to change dramatically.

FORBES: Dream or bust: the much-hyped 2003s

Isobutanol fermentation by-products can not be benign by the nature of their bio-chemistry.

FORBES: Breakthrough in Biofuels? Maybe.

Mr. MARASH: I'd say what had surprised me - and I am by nature a Pollyanna - is how good we've been.

NPR: First Anniversary for Al Jazeera in English