These experiments were stimulated by a sharpened sense of the arbitrariness of existing artistic conventions, and doubts about the human place and purpose in the world.

这些实验是由对现存艺术传统任意性的一种敏感激励起来的、对人类在世界上的处境与目的提出疑问。

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The aim of establishing HMNH is to enhance public understanding and appreciation of the natural world and the human place in it, sparking curiosity and a spirit of discovery in people of all ages.

成立自然历史博物馆的目的在于加强和提高公众对自然界和人类世界的认识和 鉴赏能力，激发不同年龄的人的好奇心和探索精神。

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The place seemed to be utterly bereft of human life.

看起来，这地方人迹罕至。

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She explained later that this seemed to be the place for her to stop being pushed around and to find out what human rights she had,if any.

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This intensely intimate focus on the human body is out of place in a Christian elegy and this, of course, Milton knows.

这对人类肉体的极端关注在一首基督教悼亡诗中,是不合时宜的，弥尔顿当然知道这点。

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Galileo's only using, of course, his telescope in the first place because his human capacity for vision is insufficient to see the truths of the heavens.

他唯一一次用到望远镜,是因为仅凭人类的视力,并不能够看到天堂的真理所在。

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" But scientism "also hits traditional, humanistic understandings of the special place of the human being, of the importance of soul, of inwardness and purposiveness.

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Barely a month after filmmaker James Cameron piloted a newfangled submersible to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, audiences can get an inside look at the historic expedition that for the first time sent a lone human to the deepest place on Earth.

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"It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the Gulf region of my country, " Jackson, 47, said in a written statement released Tuesday.

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