那位知识分子上个月发表了一个新的物质论。

That egghead published a new theory of matter last month.

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当我用“灵魂”这个词时，我将会在脑中泛起二元学说论的灵魂，一种非物质，无形的东西。

When I use the word "soul," I'm going to have in mind this dualist view according to which the soul is something immaterial, nonphysical.

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按照二元学说论，心灵是这种非物质的物体，我们能叫他不同的名字。

According to the dualist, the mind is this immaterial substance and we could call it by different names.

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All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

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