Spirit is merely a kind of bodily form of energy, and God at the beginning of time infused this energy into the entirety of the material world at the Creation.

灵魂不过是能量的一种物质形式，上帝在时间之始创世纪之际将这能量,注入到了整个物质世界之中。

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There is this sense of the concerns of the sky somehow, the concerns of the above; the concerns of the transcendent are seeping their way in to the concerns of the material world below.

这有种来自天空，来自天上的眷顾的感觉;,高高在上的天神一点一滴地,眷顾下面的物质世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They're actively engaged in the material, actually seeing the phenomena, by making measurements of real world experiments.

学生们能自主地参与到物质中，看见真切的现象，通过对真实世界实验,做出测量。

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This is a poem about bending and breaking, forms, the material givens of the world.

这是个关于曲折和中断的诗，形式，这个世界给我们的原料。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Ordinary material objects of this world can partake of the various Platonic forms, but they should not be confused with the Platonic forms.

现实世界的普通物体,能够分有各种各样的型相,但不能把它们同型相混为一谈

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We've talked a lot about the capacities of the human mind and some of these capacities involve adapting and dealing with the material world.

我们讲过人类思想的能力,这些能力中包括适应力,以及应付物质世界的能力。

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There is in Frost no God, no transcendental source of guidance or consolation, nothing out there in the world but the material conditions of our circumstances.

在弗罗斯特的诗里，没有上帝，没有卓越的指引和安慰，这个世界里什么都没有,除了我们生活环境的物质条件。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Black Boy We started this course talking about Black Boy - and the way that a whole world of pressure-- pushed on the borders of that work and actually changed its very material form.

在开始这门课的时候我们先讨论了,说了这个充满政治压力的种族矛盾激化的世界-,并且已经改变了,它的实体范畴的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选