A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类本性
Human Nature
A jealous ear hears all things.
嫉妒的耳朵能听到一切。
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
一切展望未来的事物都提高了人的本性。
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
如果你因为看电视而粗鲁,那不是真人秀。
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
爱情是一位陌生的主人,人性更是陌生。
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
人类的本性就是一夫一妻制很难实现。
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
违背人性事实的理论是注定要失败的。
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
人性中最深刻的原则是渴望被欣赏。
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
抱怨是人之常情,但我会继续努力,尽我所能。
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
种族仇恨不是人性;种族仇恨是对人性的抛弃。
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
忍受痛苦的能力比我在人性中观察到的任何东西都更不一样。
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
人性比任何现存文化的人为发明都要深刻和广泛。
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
士兵的勇气被认为是人性中最廉价、最普遍的品质。
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
父母和子女的感情似乎和人的天性一样热烈,他们的情感和依恋也和人的天性一样活跃和忠诚。
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
我们从小就习惯于践踏人性的权利,每一种慷慨、每一种自由的感情,如果没有熄灭,也会在我们的头脑中衰弱下去。
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
人性中有很多美好的东西,人们越了解彼此就越喜欢对方,这为我们提供了另一种途径,我们可以努力促进世界的和平。
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
对于一个对人性感兴趣的聪明人来说,科学界把如此多的精力花在对身体的研究上,而对心灵的研究却如此之少,这一定常常显得很奇怪。
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
当然,我们将认识到,人类本性科学的每一项进步,迟早都会直接或间接地促进我们成功地控制人类本性,并将其改变为有利于共同福祉。
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
莎士比亚精彩地揭示了人性:他照亮了我们本能地想要支配彼此的欲望。