They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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Notice in that sentence, he uses those Aristotelian terms, " "form" and "matter" that we spoke about in relation to the Aristotelian regime.

注意看这个句子，他使用那些亚里士多德式的词汇，“形式“和，“物质,那是在谈亚里士多德式政体时所见的词汇。

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Very frequently, as is the case in Gadamer, this meaning is called "the subject matter": that is to say, what--in thinking about literature in terms of form and content, let's say--we'd call "content."

高达美，又把这一含义称为主题：,当我们研究文学的,形式和内容方面时，主题即内容“

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Aristotle distinguishes between what he calls the matter and the form of the regime.

亚里士多德的区分,是他所谓的政体本质与形式。

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