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and fight with her."

与其斗争"
A notion that the Greeks would have regarded

这个主张被古希腊人当做
as dangerously arrogant and certain to produce disaster.

危险骄横并会带来灾难的观点
They would have seen this

对于这种观点
as an example of the word that they used,

他们经常会用一个词来表示
and we'll talk about a lot in this course, hubris,

我们以后也会经常提到狂妄
a kind of violent arrogance which comes upon men

一种极度的傲慢
when they see themselves as more than human

以至于让他们认为自己是神
and behave as though they were divine.

于是他的行为也像神一样狂妄
Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli,

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响
urged human beings to employ their reason

提倡人们运用理性
to force nature to give up its secrets,

来让自然原形毕露