本性

Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon.

复辟王朝的所有偏见、利益、本性，都使人歪曲拿破仑的形象。

"Nature" not only proved "Doing-nothing" ontologically, but also broke through cosmos and things of the world with the aid of "Doing-nothing", and accomplished the ideal state of every life.

"本性"既是对"无为"的本体论证明，同时，它也必须借助于"无为"去实现对宇宙万物的贯通，并成就每一个生命的理想境界。

Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there.

他自己便隐藏在那里，生活在那里，绝对心满意足，不理睬那些诱人而又骇人的重大问题，如抽象理论的无可揣摹的远景以及形而上学的探渊，所有那些针对同一问题的玄妙理论他都抛在一边，留给上帝的信徒和否定上帝的虚无论者去处理，这些玄论有命运、善恶、生物和生物间的斗争、动物的半睡眠半思想状态、死后的转化、坟墓中的生命总结、宿世的恩情对今生的"我"的那种不可理解的纠缠、元精、实质、色空、灵魂、本性、自由、必然，还有代表人类智慧的巨神们所探索的那些穷高极深的问题，还有卢克莱修①、摩奴②、圣保罗和但丁曾以炬火似的目光，凝神仰望那仿佛能使群星跃出的浩阔天空。

It is hard to change a person's nature only illustrates nature's relative stability, but does not mean its absolute unchangeableness.

本性"难移"，只是表明本性具有相对的稳定性，但并不表明其具有绝对的不变性。

The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature", i.e. nativism, or innatism) versus personal experiences "nurture", i.e.

本性与培育之争关系到个人先天素质（&本性&，即先天论或天赋论）与个人经验（&培育&，即经验主义或行为主义）在决定或导致身体和行为特征个人差异的过程中的相对重要性。

She acts on the principle that it's pleasanter to make others wait than to be early and wait for them.

她的行为准则是，让他人等她比她早到等其他人更愉快。③天然的性能；本性

Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there.

他自己便隐藏在那里，生活在那里，绝对心满意足，不理睬那些诱人而又骇人的重大问题，如抽象理论的无可揣摹的远景以及形而上学的探渊，所有那些针对同一问题的玄妙理论他都抛在一边，留给上帝的信徒和否定上帝的虚无论者去处理，这些玄论有命运、善恶、生物和生物间的斗争、动物的半睡眠半思想状态、死后的转化、坟墓中的生命总结、宿世的恩情对今生的&我&的那种不可理解的纠缠、元精、实质、色空、灵魂、本性、自由、必然，还有代表人类智慧的巨神们所探索的那些穷高极深的问题，还有卢克莱修①、摩奴②、圣保罗和但丁曾以炬火似的目光，凝神仰望那仿佛能使群星跃出的浩阔天空。

A sheep in a tiger's skin -- outwardly strong, inwardly weak; an ass in a lion's skin -- a dressed-up weakling; a monkey in a lion's hide; appear to be tough outwardly, be timid inwardly; be fierce in appearance but weak within ; be fierce of visage but faint of heart

成语质：本性。羊虽然披上虎皮，还是见到草就喜欢，碰到豺狼就怕得发抖，它的本性没有变。比喻外表装作强大而实际上很胆小。例句～功不就，凤毛鸡胆事难成。（明·罗贯中《三国演义》第三十二回

On Tuesday the Moon in sunny Leo trines Venus and you may become the life coach of everyone you know.

周二起，月亮在狮子座与金星三分相，加强了自我意识，你大可能尽情发挥「精神导师」本性；婆婆妈妈叮咛细节、谆谆教诲起周遭每一个人。

If you will try to form a notion of yourself, of the sort of a something that you suspect to inhabit and partially to control your flesh and blood body, you will encounter a walking bundle of superfluities: and when you mentally have put aside the extraneous things—your garments and your members and your body, and your acquired habits and your appetites and your inherited traits and your prejudices, and all other appurtenances which considered separately you recognize to be no integral part of you,—there seems to remain in those pearl-colored brain-cells, wherein is your ultimate lair, very little save a faculty for receiving sensations, of which you know the larger portion to be illusory.

要想认清自我──认清那些你认为植于你体内，一定程度上控制着你血肉之躯的东西，你将会碰到一大堆与你随走随行的多余之物──衣物、四肢、躯干、积习、欲望、本性、偏见、以及其它一切身外之物。当你在思想上将这一切统统抛置一旁的时候，你最后的栖身之所就只有那珍珠色的脑细胞──仅存的一点获取感知的器官，而其中大部分不过是虚幻的意识。

The circulation, consumption and reproduction of the trilogy have not only testified to its historical significance and literariness, but also invested it with new meanings.

该三部曲的流通、消费与再生产不仅验证了其历史意义及文学性，而切还赋予它以新的意义。

If he thought that he could buy me off, he would be wrong.

如果他认为他可以收买我，那他就大错特错了。