The "trend toward a steady state" is the most fundamental premise and condition constructing creatures and nature. "Self-regulation" is a basic guarantee to maintain such a steady state.

“趋向稳态”是构成生物、自然最基本的前提和条件，“自调”是维持这种稳态的基础保证。

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Supplementarity is a way of understanding the simultaneously linear and ever proliferating, ever self-complicating nature of verbal expression.

增补性是口头表达的同时线性,不断增加，自我复制,的本质。

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It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.

事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人，他们的政治哲学，约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的，每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。

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Supply side economics invokes the most basic element of human nature: self-interest.

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We are acting as if we do not see or understand what is going on, although in my view the major resources of nature, that ability of nature to engage in self-cleansing, is nearly exhausted.

UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)

Like Nature, cloud infrastructure self-assembles.

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