通常情况下，自然灾害及其所造成的损害是很严重的，尤其是当你考虑经济上和物质方面的损失时。

Normally, a natural disaster and the damage it causes can be very severe, especially when you consider the financial and physical losses.

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感谢上帝，这些困难只是物质方面的。

They concern, thank God, only material things.——By Franklin D.

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物质方面——玩具，零食。

Material things - toys, snacks.

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But we've expanded the list of goods so it includes external goods and not only experiential or internal goods.

但是我们扩展了美好事物的定义,所以它包括物质方面的美好事物,而不仅是经验和内心方面的美好感受。

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Because it was precisely because of this one world, run by the Romans and maintained by the Romans, that allowed the spread of Christianity, to a great extent, both ideologically and thought-wise, as well as simply physically.

因为正是由罗马人统治维持的，这个统一的世界，给予基督教在大范围面积内广为传播的机会，不仅是在意识形态和智慧方面，还有物质条件方面。

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