It was a period to which, if error was natural, so was the boyish faculty of hoping, believing and rejoicing.

那是这样的一段时期：如果犯错是自然的，那么那种孩子气的希望、信仰和快乐也是自然的。

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Any potential donor should be given counselling before undergoing a period of 'down regulating', whereby her own natural cycle will be switched off.

经历“下调”——即自己的自然周期将被关掉——之前，任何潜在的捐助者应给予辅导。

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One of the reasons the site is so valuable to scientists is that it opens a window on the natural world just prior to a period of great, and puzzling, change.

对科学家来说这个遗址极为重要的一个原因是：就在令人茫然的巨变发生之前，它为我们打开了一扇通往自然世界的窗。

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So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

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Maybe he had his game face on for the tournament, or maybe he was merely in a natural resting period between exhaustive television and restaurant work.

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And it would have set in motion a transition period that pushed immediately toward higher quality in a natural, not a forced, way even allowing for a reasonable and graduated transition period of a few years.

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One by one, over a period of many years, the other natural resource companies slipped off the list.

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