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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"They had nothing else from fortune," he says, that "gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please."

他说：，“他们的时运不外乎机会，那，“提供他们物质,让他们能推行任何他们喜欢的形式“

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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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