Nutrition is considered the process, the behavioral process by which people require--acquire nutrients, and use them to promote vital activities.

营养作用就是营养的供给和摄取,也就是人们摄取营养,并将其转化为生命力的行为过程

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The one we started with-- you need the soul to explain the animation of the body-- that argument, I think, doesn't work.

我们一开始提到的那个观点,你需要灵魂来解释肉体的生命力,我想那个论点并不成立

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It symbolizes the victory of the forces of life, oath and holiness over death and impurity.

这象征着生命力的胜利，誓言和神圣能够战胜死亡和不洁。

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She says: Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive.

她说：,“《慧血》已经面世十年,而且仍然充满生命力。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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First argument, you need the soul in order to explain the animation of the body.

第一个论点,你需要借助灵魂来解释肉体的生命力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We started with the idea you needed to appeal to souls in order to roughly explain why human bodies move, why we're animated or why we move in nonrandom ways.

一开始,我们诉诸于灵魂这样一个概念,是为了解释,为何人类的肉体能移动,为何我们有生命力,为何我们能够非随机性的运动

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So it's pretty obvious that no machine could be alive.

所以很明显,机器不可能是具有生命力

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A plant is a living thing.

一株植物是一个有生命力的实体

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No material object could be alive.

物质实体都不具有生命力

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To have an animated body, you need to have a functioning body.

一具有生命力的肉体,必须能正常运作

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So the body is no longer animated.

所以肉体不再具有生命力

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When the headache is occurring Now, according to the deprivation account the badness of death consists in the fact that when you're dead you are deprived of the goods of life ? So when is death bad for you?

当头疼发生时,现在根据剥夺解释,死亡的坏处在于,当你死了的时候,你便被剥夺了生命力的好处这个事实,所以什么时候死亡对你来说不好？

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