We started with the idea you needed to appeal to souls in order to roughly explain why human bodies move, why we're animated or why we move in nonrandom ways.

一开始,我们诉诸于灵魂这样一个概念,是为了解释,为何人类的肉体能移动,为何我们有生命力,为何我们能够非随机性的运动

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A plant is a living thing.

一株植物是一个有生命力的实体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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