Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.

即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As far as I know, he doesn't publish he's not in the newspapers, but he's gotten the ear of the Treasury Secretary They spent many weekends together figuring out what should be done about the system and they wrote up a proposal.

据我所知，他从没出过书,也没有上过新闻，但他却有当财政部长的潜质,他花了数周的时间来搞清楚,对于现在的美国金融体系,该怎么改革然后书写成书。

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