So physical life, physical matter, for the mature Milton is never lifeless or dead.

因此生命是具体的，物质是具体的，成熟后的弥尔顿没有失去活力，也没有死亡。

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And we ask ourselves, "Could it possibly be that life could be explained in material terms?"

我们问自己,从物质的角度来解释生命呢

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He impregnates it with spirit, and he gives it a potency of life.

他用灵魂孕育物质，并给它生命的潜质。

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As one examines their actions and lives," he writes, "one does not see that they had anything else from fortune than the opportunity which gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please.

他写到：，“当一个人在检视其行为与生命时“,他们所见的时运,不外乎提供他们,物质的机会,让他们能推行,任何他们喜欢的形式。

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You know that some viruses use RNA as their genetic material and so their lifecycle is going to be slightly different than this.

有些病毒利用RNA作为遗传物质,而且正因如此,它们的生命周期,会与前者有所不同

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We didn't have a clue back then how to explain life in material terms.

在那个年代,我们还不知道如何从物质的角度去解释生命

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Life requires something immaterial above and beyond matter to explain it.

还需要借助某些,非物质的,高于并超于物质的东西,来对生命进行解释

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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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No material object could be alive.

物质实体都不具有生命力

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