Without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all other animals, and even over nature itself.

如果没有语言，我们就不可能登上超越所有其他动物、甚至超越大自然的顶峰。

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The rise of a major power is both economic and military in nature.

一个大国的崛起本质上既是经济上的，也是军事上的。

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What matters is the nature of those power stations.

问题是那些充电站的性质怎样。

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Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

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Saddam's brashness, and the criminal abandon with which his officers looted Kuwait, stripping even the marble from its palaces to add to Saddam's own, revealed for all to see his nature as an unworldly and power-mad brute.

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We hold them up as an example of unconquerable nature even as we applaud the daredevils and power-brokers who conquer them.

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Also, since the necessarily erratic nature of wind power necessitates the development of energy-storage technologies to guarantee continuous supply, wind power can also act as a spur to the development of a hydrogen economy in which cars no longer require petroleum fuel.

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