And what a case like this, where somebody is in a coma, is without consciousness as a result of damage to the brain, is a stark illustration of the physical nature of mental life.

想象一下这样的情况,某人正陷于昏迷之中,由于脑部损伤而失去了意识,这是心理活动的生理属性毫无修饰的图解

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now here is the key point: Painful emotions are as much as part of human nature as the law of gravity is part of physical nature.

这是关键点：,人类本性的痛苦情绪,一如物理世界的万有引力定律。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Hobbes, as we see, sometimes writes as a sort of scientist or proto-scientist for whom nature and one supposes the laws of nature operate with the same kind of necessity as the laws of physical attraction.

霍布斯有些时候,像科学家或者原科学家一样写作,对他来说，自然和自然法,与另一种必需法则,即物质吸引的法则共同作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

More generally speaking, we might say, they're subject to deterministic laws... that, as physical objects, it's true of them that they must do what the laws of physics and laws of nature require that they do.

我们甚至可以这样说,它们受制于决定性的法则,即,作为物理实体,它们必须按照,物理定律和自然法则的要求去做

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She doesn't spend her bodily wealth and fulfill the terms of nature's loan And so for Comus, the Lady is hoarding the natural asset of her physical beauty.

她不花费自己的身体财富和不履行自然的贷款条件,对于Comus来说，小姐在囤积自然给她的美貌资产。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选