He risked his health and his reputation to advance the idea that we are not over nature but a part of it.

他冒着牺牲健康和名誉的危险提出了这一思想，即我们不是超越于自然的，而只是它的一部分。

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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。

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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。

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Huck's nature is good, but he has no idea of it.

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And in many ways, we can understand human intellectual history just based on this idea: ? should we accept human nature?

在很多方面，我们能理解人类智力发展历史,仅仅基于这个观点：,应不应该接受人类本性？

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One of the reasons this understanding seems so problematic is the idea that we don't appeal to the authority of an author in making our mind about the nature of a given field of discourse.

这种理解之所以看起来有问题,一个原因就是我们不会为了弄清一个特定领域话语的本质,去诉求作者的权威。

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The new idea in Nature Communications uses small "islands" of energy-storing materials dotted on a stretchy polymer.

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He questions why the idea of human nature has become a taboo subject, exploring "hot buttons" like violence, gender and aggression.

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Not least of which is the question of original sin, a tradition that seems harder and harder to reconcile with what science is telling us about human origins, because it presupposes a fixed idea of human nature.

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