These are the planks of his model, that matter is composed of atoms that are indivisible and indestructible.

这些是，他的模型的一些内容，物质是有原子组成的,不可分割且不可毁灭的。

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They're made of matter just as human beings are, but their bodies aren't compounded of separable elements.

他们同人类一样由物质组成，但他们的身体不分部件。

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If the very idea of soul that we're working with here under the dualist picture is the soul as an immaterial substance, it's not made of ordinary atomic matter.

如果关于我们正在讨论的,观点是建立在二元论的基础上,即灵魂是非物质实体,它并非由一般的原子物质组成

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For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

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We are made of soft matter.

我们是由软性物质组成的。

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