His speech was in the nature of an apology.

他的话也就是道歉。

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His request was in the nature of a command.

他的请求倒好像是命令。

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The purpose of scientists was basically to offer entertainment to fashionable society, and academicians delighted in amazing audiences with demonstrations of the universal laws of nature.

科学家们的主要目的是为上流社会提供娱乐，而学者们则更乐于向观众展示大自然的普遍规律，让他们为之惊叹。

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And he said the nature of land in New Mexico was such that slaves could not be used.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

What captures this idea best-- the words of Francis Bacon, considered the father of the scientific movement, was a philosopher in 1600s: " "Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."

最准确阐述这种观点的-,是培根的话，他是17世纪时科学运动之父，是一名哲学家：,“号令自然，必须遵守自然“

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Completion of the project was reported in the journal Nature.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

The last remains of the Yugoslav state "died yesterday in a play which was more in the nature of burlesque than tragedy", the paper says.

BBC: Press bids farewell to Yugoslavia

The phrase nature deficit disorder was coined in 2005 by author Richard Louv, who argued that the human cost of "alienation from nature" was measured in "diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses".

BBC: Nature deficit disorder 'damaging Britain's children'

To be fair, all this was also true of the cells described in the Nature paper, which was written by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of the Oregon Stem Cell Centre in Beaverton, and his colleagues.

ECONOMIST: Human embryonic stem cells