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L/O/G/O ON HUMAN NATURE 成员：赵歌、安姿旋、吴梅梅、晋雅芳 管理工程学院 As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. -Dr.Samuel Johnson 我对人类的了解越多，对他们的期望就越低。和以前相比，我现在常常以较宽松的标准把一个人叫做好人。 This passage is adapted from “What is human nature?”, a chapter in An Eternal Career, written by Frank and Lydia Hammer, the companion book to their another book Life and Its Mysteries(1945).Published in 1947 by Dorrance Publishing Company in Philadelphia, An Eternal Career was scanned at in June 2007. Paragraph 1 Human nature is the basis of character, the temperament and disposition; it is that indestructible matrix upon which the character is built, and whose shape it must take and keep throughout life. This we call a person’s nature. 人性是性格、气质和性情的基础，性格正是基于这种牢不可破的基质之上的，它必须以这种基质的形式存在，并将它保留终生，这种基质，我们称之为一个人的本性。 Paragraph 1 disposition可以翻译成性格或性情，但含义指的是一个人通常的情绪状态，如 a boy with cheerful disposition 一个性格快乐的男孩，a girl with sweet disposition 一个性格温柔的女孩子。　　temperament 则指的是天生的决定一个人思想行为举止的体力和智力的能力总和，可以翻译成气质。如 she has artisitic temperament 她具有艺术家的气质。 Paragraph 2 The basic nature of human beings does not and cannot change. It is only the surface that is capable of alteration, improvement and refinement; we can alter only people’s customs, manners, dress and habits. 人类的本性不会也不能改变，只有一些表面特征才会变化、改善和进一步提升；我们可以改变人们的风格、举止、衣着和习惯。 Paragraph 2 A study of history reveals that the people who walked this earth in antiquity were moved by the same fundamental forces, were swayed by the same passions, and had the same aspirations as the men and women of today. 一项历史研究表明，曾经行走在地球上的古人们和今天的男男女女们受着同样的基本力量驱使，被同样的激情左右并有着同样的抱负。 Paragraph 2 The pursuit of happiness still engrosses mankind the world over. 时至今日，对幸福的追求仍然是全世界人类全身心投入的事业。 Paragraph 3 Moreo