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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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。
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
人类的本性必须比现在或未来许多代人更接近完美，才能排除这种控制偏见、自私、野心和不公。
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
那件刻着你名字的小玩意。是由一个特殊的事实引起的;但是，让人性蒙羞的是，这个话题的普遍性足以引起每一颗心的兴趣，而不是完全无法理解。
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。
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
事实上，我认为秘密只是人性的一部分，每个人都应该有一些。
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
许多心理学家、语言学家和生物学家都赞同我对人性的看法，更不用说几个世纪前的哲学家和学者了。