call of nature

基本解释

When penguins get a call of nature, they're generally not too fussy where they go.
当企鹅想要上厕所时，他们通常对去哪里排便不会太挑剔。
I'm told ... he urgently needed to attend a call of nature only to be ordered to allow visitors first use of a toilet near the control room.
我听说枪手急需如厕，但被下令让来宾优先使用控制室旁的厕所。
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He had to leave suddenly to answer the call of nature.
他不得不忽然离开去处理下内急。

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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I just say that in passing to call your attention to it as a risk that's involved in our engagement with a hermeneutic project of the nature of Gadamer's.
我这样说只是为了提醒你们,研究有伽达默尔的诠释学理论时,可能有这样的风险。
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To engage in civil disobedience of any kind is not only to call this or that rule into question but it is to call into question the very nature of law, the very question of the rules.
任何形式的公民违抗,都不仅是质疑那项单一法规,更是质疑法律的本质，质疑所有的法规。
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O.s liked having a house guru, a firm whisperer, on call, and the nature of the relationship gave Bain an interest in something that other consulting companies had little reason to care about after they collected their fees, which was whether the advice they sold actually helped the company do better.
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