She remembers that the man operating the device at first refused to accept her material.

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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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Yet this has less to do with Ms Secrest's abilities, which are considerable, and more to do with the nature of the man and the material at hand.

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The material that went into Fat Man, the plutonium bomb detonated over Nagasaki, was made at Hanford, which at its peak consisted of nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium reprocessing plants.

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There was in fact a case where Germany was seeking extradition from England of a man who had written such material on an Australian website.

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