Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature.

艾伦的贡献在于提出了一个我们都认同的假设——因为我们不是机器人，所以我们控制自己的思想——并揭示了这个假设的错误本质。

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Changing your beliefs about the nature of your self-control can have positive effects on character development.

改变你对自我控制本质的想法，可以对性格发展产生积极的影响。

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But as we started to control nature, we saw ourselves above nature.

可是我们开始控制自然，我们认为我们可以驾驭自然。

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It says the synthetic cells might take control of living things in nature.

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What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

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Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

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He much approves of the 18th-century English aristocrat who moved out of his crumbling pile in order to admire, from his new house on the hill, how quickly wild nature took control of the elegant rooms he had lived in.

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The other part that's always tricky is the creative control because it's not in a brand's nature to relinquish control--they're used to making commercials, which are very controlled and highly manipulated 30-second spots that paint a pretty picture of their brand.

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We can't control nature, but we can and must be prepared for disaster when it strikes.

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