Maya Lin has said that she does not believe that anything she creates can compare to the beauty of the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

First, in the first eight stanzas you have Milton describing the scene of the Nativity and the effect that the birth of this new infant has on the natural world.

第一部分，前八行,弥尔顿描述了基督降生的景象,还有这个新生婴儿对现实世界的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Rachel Carsons voice is alive in her writings that express the wonder and beauty of the natural world.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The sign is not linked to the natural world by any natural means, and the sign is not linked to other signs by any natural means.

符号不会自然地，和自然世界产生联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And the degree to which you can have experiences where you are being intimate with the natural world, is part of that sort of key to open the door to those transcended experiences and to the spiritual nature.

你会有一些与自然亲密接触的经历,你能从这些经历中感悟到多少，决定着,你能否打开通往超验和,神性的门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Throughout her career, Lin's monuments,buildings, and sculptures have been influenced by the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

What that means, Kaufman asserts, is that in pagan religion there's very often a fluid boundary between the divine, the human, and the natural worlds. They blur into one another because they all emerge ultimately from the same primordial world stuff.

考夫曼认为，在异教概念里,神族、人类和自然世界的划分标准通常是不固定的，三者之间互相影响，因为从根本上来说,它们都是从同一个世界本源上发展而来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Young Charles was intensely interested in the natural world from an early age.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

In the most straightforward natural meaning of the term, we have to say--I think the program that beat the world champion was called Deep Fritz.

从最直接最自然的意义上理解,我们不得不说,我想,那个打败世界冠军的计算机程序叫深弗里茨

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

The first point worth noting about this, is that Aristotle did not simply assume slavery was natural, because it was practiced virtually everywhere in the ancient world.

第一点值得注意的是，亚里士多德并未,简单纯地假设奴役是自然的，只因奴役在古代的世界,四处可见。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A scientific theory represents the best explanation of how the natural world works.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

And the idea is they have sort of natural responses that these learning situations might exploit and might channel, but essentially, they do have certain natural ways of acting towards the world.

动物们拥有某些能够为学习情境所引导,和利用的自然反应，但重要的是，它们确实拥有着某种应对世界的行为方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says it makes us remember our place in the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

They will convert it they'll take portions of John Locke that they like, and not the others and they'll say the real rule of the world is not natural equality, but it is natural inequality.

他们会转变它,他们接受约翰·洛克理论的一部分观点,排斥他们不喜欢的,而且他们说真正的世界法则,不是天生平等,而是天生不平等的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Perhaps this is consistent with any study of the natural world."

VOA: special.2011.03.23

The tradition is aristocracy; that's what we connect with the polis, and of course, it was natural, because it also fit into the world of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which they were accustomed to think about.

他们的传统是贵族政府,这是我们该和城邦联系起来的政体,当然,这也很自然,因为这也符合《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中的描写,他们习惯于用这样的方式去思考

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I found that this interconnection between the manmade and the natural world was most powerful.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

He sang songs of such beauty that the entire natural world would move and dance in response. This is the story of Orpheus that we have received up to this point in Milton's poetry.

他的歌声是如此动听，整个大自然,都会随之翩翩起舞，这是到目前为止,弥尔顿的诗歌所讲述的俄耳甫斯的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The spirit of discovery and adventure," "The spirit of exploration of our natural world.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

There's a kind of organic continuity that men partake of just as the natural world does.

如同自然世界的新陈代谢，人类也有一种,有机的代谢与持续。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

All spirits, like the genius loci, are physical, palpable presences in the natural world.

所有的神灵，像地方守护神，都具体可触的存在于自然界。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Thomas Jefferson did not like what the Count had said about the natural wonders of the New World.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

For my perspective, even if you understand God to be the creator of the world, I don't think that means that God is causing a certain natural event to happen at certain time.

从我的角度来说，即使你明白,上帝是世界的创造者，但这并不意味着上帝,导致了某个自然界的现象在特定的时间发生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

UNESCO's World Heritage list includes over nine hundred natural or cultural places considered to have universal value.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Despite the fact the world is green, covered with plants and trees, there is no one natural dye that makes green,a colorfast,permanent dark green."

VOA: special.2011.06.15