law of nature

基本解释

As a scientist I have grown up to believe this law of nature: the only thing that travels faster than light is a rumour.
作为一个科学家，我从小到大一直坚信这样一条自然法则：世界上唯一比光速还快的就是流言散播的速度。
Even if a pattern of behaviour is almost universal, we can't know in advance if it is a law of nature we cannot change or simply a remnant of our primitive past that we can and should modify.
即使一种行为模式是近乎普世的，我们也无法预先知道它究竟是一个我们不能改变的自然法则，还是只是一种我们能够并且应该改变的原始陋习。
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But when he plotted his results, he found that these diverse events fell into a regular pattern. It was as if the chaos of war seemed to comply with some hitherto unknown law of nature.
当他把这些数据作图时，发现这些性质不一的战争却呈现出某种有规律的模式，似乎战争的混乱也遵循着一些至今还无人知晓的自然法则。

He said they violate the law against patents for products of nature.
So an arbitrary taking of property would be a violation of the law of nature and would be illegitimate.
所以任意掠夺他人财产,就侵犯了自然法，就是非法的。
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And so the next thing you do is you call up a journal and say I've discovered a fundamental law of nature.
下一步你做的事是打电话给一个杂志,并宣称你发现了一条自然界的基础定律。
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During the 1990s, the rising price of football players seemed like a law of nature.
ECONOMIST: Football finances

an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals

自然法
They differ on their logic structure:for Hobbes,desires-Law of Nature-Leviathan,while for Xunzi, desires-the throne-li.
但是,相对于霍布斯"欲望-自然法-主权者",的逻辑,荀子的逻辑则是"欲求-君王-礼义"。
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