Natural philosophy involved the study of all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate.

自然哲学涉及到了对包括有生命体与无生命体的物质世界的全面研究。

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Let us not think of the return to the inanimate as a regression, Death has to be reinterpreted.We thereby reconcile ourselves with what is actual with the dead world.

我们不要想作为退化回到了无生命世界，死亡必须重新解释，我们因此将自己，与死亡世界的真实碰撞到一起。

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For an inanimate object, the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy has had a whirlwind of a life.

对于一个没有生命的物体，该雷米特世界杯冠军奖杯了旋风式的生活。

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