While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

虽然人类的天性在很大程度上决定了我们如何听音符，但正是后天培养让我们听到了音乐。

Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.

谁没有发现下面的天堂 将会在上面失败。 上帝的住所就在我的旁边， 他的家具是爱。

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

我们当中有谁能够阅读、理解并完全相信他对他所居住的土地的所有权，以及他通过最不屈不挠的勤奋和毅力从自然状态中拯救出来的土地?

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

谁敢把模仿自然的枯燥功能赋予艺术呢?

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

为什么看着一个人沉沦会如此痛苦?因为这里面有一些不自然的东西，因为自然需要个人的进步、进化，每后退一步都意味着浪费精力。

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours'.

冬天是大自然的一种表达方式，“随你的便”。

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

有了这些普通和非凡的巨大优势，人们会以为北方会心满意足，至少会尊重这些顺从而有益的兄弟们的安全与安宁;但这不是人类的本性。

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

妇女的自然作用是成为家庭的支柱。

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

从本质上讲，女性并不是杰出的棋手:她们不是伟大的斗士。

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

语言，像自然一样，一半显露，一半隐藏着内在的灵魂。

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

在我看来，约塞米蒂山谷永远是日出之地，是一座由石头和空间构成的巨大建筑中闪耀的绿色和金色奇观。

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

你可以改变环境，但你永远无法改变人的内在本质。

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

你可以把自己从世上的苦难中拉回来，这是你可以自由地去做的事情，也符合你的本性，但也许正是这种克制，才是你可以避免的痛苦。

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

你可以从一个人的用词来判断他的性格。

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

你不必专门唱出你生活中正在发生的事情，但由于音乐的本质，因为它是一种难以置信的情感现象，你所感受到或经历的一切都在你所演奏的音乐中得以传达。