But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

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Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

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But rather reason, he says, is attained by industry,by work, and it is developed first, he says, by the imposing of names on things, the correct names on things, and second by getting a good and orderly method of study.

他说，理性是通过辛勤的努力得来的，理性的形成，是通过使用事物的名称，事物正确的名称形成的，第二，是通过获得一种良好,而有有条不紊的学习方法形成的。

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