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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The world is a unity of the material world and the meaningful world.

世界是物质世界和意义世界的统一。

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Our mastery of the material world, on the other hand, has advanced much more slowly.

另一方面，我们驾驭物质世界进步的速度却缓慢地多。

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But experts say no-one knows how large the world stockpile of nuclear material is because not every country reports what it's producing.

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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。

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In this period, many religious radicals claimed that the Church, along with the rest of the material world, was evil.

NEWYORKER: Rich Man, Poor Man

This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.

ECONOMIST: When hocus-pocus is all but child's play

My last conversation with Adrian Bejan ended on the notion that if design in nature is a universal principle of the material world, then freedom is the key variable that determines how efficiently designs can evolve over time.

FORBES: The Constructal Sessions, Part II: Freedom and Design