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2012年研究生入学考试英语（一）翻译部分全文译文 Universal Truths 普遍真理 薛海滨 译 译者注：本文选自英国《自然》杂志（原文详见/nature/journal/v472/n7342/full/472136a.html），2012年研究生考试中，出题人对原文的某些字句进行了改编。在此，译者翻译的是没有经过改编的原版文章。 Since at least the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise. In some ways, this quest for commonalities defines science: without it, there is no underlying order and pattern, merely as many explanations as there are things in the world. Newtons laws of motion, the oxygen theory of combustion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single e