大自然

Nature has an unchanging amount of water.

大自然里水的总量是不变的。

She had been told that, rough and brutal as they seemed just then, they were not like this all the year round, but were, in fact, quite civil persons save during certain weeks of autumn and winter, when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their purpose to destroy life - in this case harmless feathered creatures, brought into being by artificial means solely to gratify these propensities - at once so unmannerly and so unchivalrous towards their weaker fellows in Nature's teeming family.

她曾经听人说过，他们那时候似乎粗鲁野蛮，但不是一年到头都是这样，其实他们都是一些十分文明的人，只是在秋天或冬天的几个星期里，才像马来半岛上的居民那样杀气腾腾，一味地杀害生灵--他们猎杀的这些与人无害的羽毛生物，都是为了满足他们这种杀生嗜好而预先用人工培养出来的--那个时候，他们对大自然芸芸众生中比他们弱小的生灵，竟是那样地粗野，那样地残酷。

It is written, He said, Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

当他单独在大自然中与上帝同在时，那就是他最快乐的时候了。

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter —— life-everlasting, goldenrods, pinweeds, and graceful wild grasses, more obvious and interesting frequently than in summer even, as if their beauty was not ripe till then; even cotton-grass,cat-tails, mulleins, johnswort, hard-hack, meadow-sweet, and other strong-stemmed plants, those unexhausted granaries which entertain the earliest birds —— decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

土地上有一部分已没有了积雪，一连几个温暖的日子把它的表面晒得相当的干燥了，这时的赏心悦目之事是用这新生之年的婴孩期中各种初生的柔和的现象，来同那些熬过了冬天的一些苍老的植物的高尚的美比较，——长生草，黄色紫苑，针刺草和别种高雅的野草，往往在这时比它们在夏季里更加鲜明，更加有味，好像它们的美非得熬过了冬才到达成熟时期似的：甚至棉花草，猫尾草，毛蕊花，狗尾草，绣线草，草原细草，以及其他有强壮草茎的植物，这些都是早春的飞鸟之无穷的谷仓，——至少是像像样样的杂草，它们是大自然过冬的点缀。

To get a true picture of nature, he picked/chose mountains with treacherous paths and unfrequented jungles for explorations

为了弄清大自然的真相，他总是挑选道路艰险的山区，人迹稀少的森林进行考察，发现了许多奇山秀景

Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.

大自然是人类的一个组成部分，因无制导进化改变。

And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man?

可是，顺便说一说，大自然在更荒凉的、未经人们改进的地面上所生产的谷物，谁又会去计算出它们的价值来呢？

This watercolor is unmistakably a synthesis of nature.

这幅水彩画很明显是对大自然的综合。

But Robert Sweet, the presiding judge, disagreed, at least as far as the BRCA genes are concerned. After weighing up Myriad's arguments, he ruled:"It is concluded that DNA's existence in an 'isolated' form alters neither this fundamental quality of DNA as it exists in the body nor the information it encodes. Therefore, the patents at issues directed to 'isolated DNA' containing sequences found in nature are unsustainable as a matter of law and are deemed unpatentable subject matter."

但首席法官Robert Sweet的答案却是"否"，至少是在考虑BRCA基因一案后给出了这个答案，仔细掂量了Myraid公司的陈词后，他裁定说"我们得出结论：DNA结构是'脱离个体'的存在物，它既不能在人体内改变其基本特征，也不能改变它所编码的信息，因此，这个正在审议中的专利所指的"脱离个体，独立的DNA"，它包含序列信息，是在大自然中所发现的，把它当作一个法律问题来看是不成立的，应当作为一个不可申请专利的条目"。

She sank to the human shows a mysterious force of nature, as well as the unpredictability of fate.

她的沉没，向人类展示了大自然的神秘力量，以及命运的不可预测。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。