Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The sovereign does not exist by nature but rather, Hobbes tells us again, the sovereignty is the product of art or science.

霍布斯又告诉我们说,国家不是生来就有的，而主权也只是科学和艺术的产物罢了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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So, a natural product is something that is made by nature, and often natural products, whether it comes from a plant or a marine organism have some really good, useful properties. And so, one particular compound has anti-tumor properties. So, again, along this line of cancer research.

天然产物是在自然界中生成的,通常一个天然产物，不管是来自植物或者海洋生物,都有些非常好非常实用的性质，其中的一个特殊的化合物,可以治疗癌症,再一次我们又来到癌症研究上。

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He is unlimited by nature.

是因为他不受自然的约束

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

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Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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He is part of his own phantasmagoria and we adore him because nature has grown intelligible, and by doing so a part of our creative power.

他是自己幻影中的一部分,我们崇拜他因为自然而变得易懂，我们也理解自己的创造力。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

John Locke accounted for the rise of private property from the state of nature by a chain of reasoning very similar to the one that Nozick and the libertarians use.

洛克从自然状态角度,解释了私有财产的兴起,他的推理思路,和诺齐克等自由主义者的思路相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If there's no human nature, then there's no sense in which one group of humans by dint of their race or their sex could be better than another group.

如果不存在人性，那么一群人因种族或性别,优于另一群的人的说法,便纯属无稽之谈。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Of course, we have to also know how to plug in the numbers so we can pass all the tests, but it's good to understand the nature of the edifice set up by Newton.

当然,我们首先要知道怎么代数字,这样我们考试才能过关,但是如果能理解,牛顿的这一伟大杰作的本质就更好了

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I'm going to start by talking about a very specific and interesting form of double stranded DNA called a plasmid and plasmids occur in nature.

我要从一种十分特殊,并有趣的双链DNA开始,这种双链DNA被称为质粒,它在自然界就存在

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

that man is political by nature is not just to say that we become fully human by participating with others in a city.

说人类天生具有政治性,并非意指,我们能成为完整的人,仅是和城市中的其它人共同参与。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Nature supplies the standards, the materials, the models, for all the later arts, the city being by nature, man by nature, nature provides the standard.

自然提供了标准，物质，模型，为后来产生的艺术，为城市，为人类的存在，是自然提供了一切标准。

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But there is a second sense for him and, in some ways, a more important sense in which he says the polis is by nature.

但他还有另一种说法,且就某种程度看来是更重要的说法,他说城邦就是自然演变。

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In what sense, we could ask ourselves and I think you probably will be asking in your sections, ? in what sense is the city by nature?

就何种意义而言，我们能自问,且我想你们也应该,会在你们的时段讨论，就何种意义而言，城市是自然演变的存在？

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